While I cannot help with Ubuntu issues, so much to ponder:
Today, I installed my new box, first with OpenSUSE 13.2 to give it a try (I always test it for nostalgia as my first Linux in 1991 was SuSE), and later I installed Aptosid (Hesperides), a Debian Sid distro I like. On both, I simply took a 1 year old USB disk based Ryzom installation (simple copy from an other box), plugged it in and ran it (cd <ryzom_directory>; `pwd`/ryzom_client).
On OpenSUSE, I had to install two 32bit libs ryzom_client complained about, libGL.so (not the exact name, but search for "libGL" in Software manager found it) and librandr.so. Afterwards everything worked fine, except that I had to wait for a ryzum client patch which stuck at 71/90 ; I aborted, restarted, perfect. As a Nvidia user, I had to install the proprietary Nvidia 3D driver before.
On Aptosid (Debian), after installing Nvidia driver (which was slightly more tedious but worked fine following the manual), Ryzom ran out of the box (ok the patch was done, then). For the persistent installation, I simply copied the Ryzom directory to /usr/local/games (my choice, one may place it elsewhere), and created an icon to start it by mouse. This Ryzom "installation" took about 5 minutes. Afterwards, I copied a more recent save folder backup to the new box (another 30 seconds ;)).
What I want to say: It can save you hours of download and installation to save a working Ryzom installation to an appropriate medium. This is, btw., true for Windows as well. I frequently ran Ryzom off a USB stick, there, or simply copied it to Program Files folder.
Today, I installed my new box, first with OpenSUSE 13.2 to give it a try (I always test it for nostalgia as my first Linux in 1991 was SuSE), and later I installed Aptosid (Hesperides), a Debian Sid distro I like. On both, I simply took a 1 year old USB disk based Ryzom installation (simple copy from an other box), plugged it in and ran it (cd <ryzom_directory>; `pwd`/ryzom_client).
On OpenSUSE, I had to install two 32bit libs ryzom_client complained about, libGL.so (not the exact name, but search for "libGL" in Software manager found it) and librandr.so. Afterwards everything worked fine, except that I had to wait for a ryzum client patch which stuck at 71/90 ; I aborted, restarted, perfect. As a Nvidia user, I had to install the proprietary Nvidia 3D driver before.
On Aptosid (Debian), after installing Nvidia driver (which was slightly more tedious but worked fine following the manual), Ryzom ran out of the box (ok the patch was done, then). For the persistent installation, I simply copied the Ryzom directory to /usr/local/games (my choice, one may place it elsewhere), and created an icon to start it by mouse. This Ryzom "installation" took about 5 minutes. Afterwards, I copied a more recent save folder backup to the new box (another 30 seconds ;)).
What I want to say: It can save you hours of download and installation to save a working Ryzom installation to an appropriate medium. This is, btw., true for Windows as well. I frequently ran Ryzom off a USB stick, there, or simply copied it to Program Files folder.
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