Tutorial's "Hello World" not working?

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Tutorial's "Hello World" not working?

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I know this is an idiotic question, as LOVE seems to have a great fanbase, but I just copy/pasted the 'Hello World' program and tried to run it on Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based distro), and it give me this output, and no...ahem...love...or executable.

I'll admit, I need to RTFM, but what am I doing wrong here?

My output, after running 'love hello.love':
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This is LOVE 0.5.0 (Salted Nuts).

INIT love.filesystem [PhysFS]
INIT love.graphics [OpenGL/DevIL/FreeType]
INIT love.audio [SDL_mixer]
INIT love.timer [SDL]
INIT love.mouse [SDL]
INIT love.keyboard [SDL]
INIT love.physics [Box2D]
INIT love.lib [LuaSocket]
INIT love.joystick [SDL]
INIT love.system [Generic]
Game (/home/scott/programming/love/hello.love) does not exist.
QUIT love.system [Generic]
QUIT love.joystick [SDL]
QUIT love.lib [LuaSocket]
QUIT love.physics [Box2D]
QUIT love.keyboard [SDL]
QUIT love.mouse [SDL]
QUIT love.timer [SDL]
QUIT love.audio [SDL_mixer]
QUIT love.graphics [OpenGL/DevIL/FreeType]
QUIT love.filesystem [PhysFS]
-----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks :)
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Welcome, scott_R!

Is your .love a folder or renamed zipfile with a file called main.lua in it?

See http://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started and http://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution.

If you have named your main file "hello.love", you can run the following in the terminal:

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mv hello.love main.lua
love .
EDIT: also, I see you are running 0.5.0. The Ubuntu repository version is rather old. The latest version is LÖVE 0.6.2, which is so much more awesome. ;) (Also, it brings in quite a few backwards incompatible changes. The documentation on the wiki is all about LÖVE 0.6.*, although the old documentation is still available for download, IIRC.)

See the main page for a download link.
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Welcome, Scott!

Yes, switch to 0.6.2. It's so much better and if you're just starting out, it's better to not learn 0.5.0 when .6 has so many changes and enhancements. I started my game when it was 0.5.0 and it took me a few months to get up the strength to convert all my code to 0.6.x because of all the changes. But I did it and my game is happier for it.
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Re: Tutorial's "Hello World" not working?

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Another easy way to run a .love under Linux, is to copy the love binary (mv /usr/bin/love /home/unknown/develfolder) into your Developmen folder and drag and drop the (unpacked) folder containing the main.lua onto (on? Whatever..) the binary.

Regards!

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Fruchthieb wrote:Another easy way to run a .love under Linux, is to copy the love binary (mv /usr/bin/love /home/unknown/develfolder) into your Developmen folder and drag and drop the (unpacked) folder containing the main.lua onto (on? Whatever..) the binary.

Regards!

P.S.: Who have stolen my avatar, and where has he put it to?
Not a good idea, since that would move the binary. If you really don't want to run it through a terminal (when you're developing, you probably want to see the terminal output anyway), you could do this:

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ln -s /usr/bin/love ~/development_folder/love
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Fruchthieb wrote:P.S.: Who have stolen my avatar, and where has he put it to?
The aliens took it. But you can upload a new one (or the same old) if you want.
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I would like to add there's a ppa now, so if you don't want to manually install packages and want automatic updates, use this ppa.
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bartbes wrote:I would like to add there's a ppa now, so if you don't want to manually install packages and want automatic updates, use this ppa.
Ooh, nice!
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bartbes wrote:I would like to add there's a ppa now, so if you don't want to manually install packages and want automatic updates, use this ppa.
I didn't know about this. Awesome! :ultrahappy:
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Oh! I'm going to have to do that from now on!
Good bye.
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