Report of installation AM 2.6.1 in Lubuntu 20.04 LTS

[kent79]

Just try to install AM in Lubuntu 20.04 LTS through by VM. It works fine. The step is below. One thing would like to highlight. I got complie error "g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus" while I set the memory is 1G. The issue was gone when set to 2GB. 

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sudo apt-get -y install make g++ git libsfml-dev libopenal-dev libavformat-dev libfontconfig1-dev ibfreetype6-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev libarchive-dev libjpeg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

git clone http://github.com/mickelson/attract attract

cd attract

make -j $(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -c processor)

sudo make install
After installed, you may create application shortcut icon on desktop. Open text editior to create new file as below content and then save as .desktop extension

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Attract Mode
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=attract

[manzarek]

sorry do you know how to start AM like in windows? http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=967.msg7291#msg7291

[kent79]

sorry do you know how to start AM like in windows? http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=967.msg7291#msg7291

It's very easy in 20.04. Two steps.

1. When you install 20.04, click "don't ask for password for login" option on user info. page or follow as below page to change setting
https://askubuntu.com/questions/182274/how-to-disable-autologin-in-lubuntu

2. GoTo Menu > Preferences > LXQt settings > Session Settings -> Autostart

Create new items, Command type "attract"

[manzarek]

thank you friend.