Hi,
I installed OpenBVE to give it a try but I can’t see how to run it. Can anyone help ?
How did you install it ?
The OpenBVE download page will give a clue 
As it requires mono to run it you would do something like this:
cd /path/where/mono/is/installed
mono /path/where/openbve/is/installed/OpenBve.exe
And as Microsoft just acquired Xamarin (therefore Mono) you may need to watch this one.
I personally always purge Mono off my systems 
No, I am not suggesting to abandon it.
SeZo, I never saw this page and haven’t a clue what it is saying. I thought if I downloaded from Synaptic it would just run ?
if you installed it via synaptic, what happens if you open a terminal and run:
openvbe
if it’s anything like my system mono will segfault ?
don@ldwatson ~ $ openbve
Stacktrace:
at <0xffffffff>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Drawing.GDIPlus.GdipLoadImageFromFile (string,intptr&) <0xffffffff>
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile (string,bool) <0x0005b>
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile (string) <0x00013>
at OpenBve.formMain.LoadImage (string,string) <0x0003b>
at OpenBve.formMain.formMain_Load (object,System.EventArgs) <0x00d83>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad (System.EventArgs) <0x00075>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoadInternal (System.EventArgs) <0x0007f>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl () <0x00053>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl () <0x0011f>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x00167>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x002d3>
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x0001b>
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x0005b>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x00253>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control/ControlWindowTarget.OnMessage (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x00025>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control/ControlNativeWindow.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message&) <0x00036>
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.WndProc (intptr,System.Windows.Forms.Msg,intptr,intptr) <0x00310>
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.SendMessage (intptr,System.Windows.Forms.Msg,intptr,intptr) <0x003f3>
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.MapWindow (System.Windows.Forms.Hwnd,System.Windows.Forms.WindowType) <0x001df>
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.CreateWindow (System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams) <0x00bab>
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI.CreateWindow (System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams) <0x0001f>
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle (System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams) <0x0003f>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle () <0x00069>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle () <0x0002b>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl () <0x00087>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetVisibleCore (bool) <0x00083>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.SetVisibleCore (bool) <0x002ef>
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible (bool) <0x00032>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible (bool) <0xffffffff>
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.RunLoop (bool,System.Windows.Forms.ApplicationContext) <0x002fb>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog (System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window) <0x008ab>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog () <0x00013>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog () <0xffffffff>
at OpenBve.formMain.ShowMainDialog () <0x0005f>
at OpenBve.Program.Main (string) <0x00bc7>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) .runtime_invoke_void_object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
Native stacktrace:
/usr/bin/cli() [0x4b73d8]
/usr/bin/cli() [0x50f13b]
/usr/bin/cli() [0x423d22]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10340) [0x7f9bc7ac2340]
/usr/lib/libgdiplus.so.0(+0x415ca) [0x7f9bbf69b5ca]
/usr/lib/libgdiplus.so.0(GdipLoadImageFromFile+0x18a) [0x7f9bbf67e67a]
[0x4008f582]
Debug info from gdb:
=================================================================
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
Aborted
don@ldwatson ~ $
OK Mark ? What you expected ?
egg-zactly as I suspected
It seems there’s a bug/incompatibility with the version of libgdiplus in 14.04 (trusty) … it works if you downgrade libgdiplus to the version from 13.10 (saucy)
If you want to do that, open a terminal and run the following commands in sequence:
mkdir ~/libgdiplus-downgrade
then
cd ~/libgdiplus-downgrade
The next two steps are dependant on your architecture (so only download and install the correct package for your architecture)…
If you’re running 32bit Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17 / Peppermint 5 or 6
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109777289/libgdiplus_2.10-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
OR if you’re running 64bit Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17 / Peppermint 5 or 6
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109777287/libgdiplus_2.10-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
then run either
sudo dpkg -i libgdiplus_2.10-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
or
sudo dpkg -i libgdiplus_2.10-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
depending on which file you downloaded.
Now see if openbve runs:
openbve
if it does, put a hold on the libgdiplus package so it’s not upgraded
sudo apt-mark hold libgdiplus
if at a later date you want to remove the hold on libgdiplus and upgrade it back to the default … just run:
sudo apt-mark unhold libgdiplus
then
sudo apt-get install libgdiplus
Thanks Mark,
I have carried out your suggestions and copied and pasted the last 2 commands to a file ‘just in case’
I will mark this as Solved over the weekend after I have tried to muck it up
You’re welcome Don … good luck
I have had a go at this but there is a distinct lack of tutorial for downloading.
I am rubbish at driving a train but it is a very interesting programme and I am well satisfied with it.
Thanks for help chaps.
take care
Don W
Yeah, had a quick go myself … ended up entering Birmingham New Street at 175kph with the train on its side.
Applying for a train driver job Monday
Not quite sure what the purpose of this post is, but still!
Information if nothing else
Development on the original version of openBVE stalled in ~2012 when the original developer (Michelle) left.
Relatively recently, I and a bunch of other people have been working very hard on restarting development.
Nightly builds are being posted here:
http://vps.bvecornwall.co.uk/OpenBVE/Builds
Full source code available here:
This bug (And plenty of others) have been properly fixed, rather than the nasty hack of downgrading libgdiplus that you performed.
libgdiplus is part of Mono, and it’s not something I’d really advise downgrading, too many places it’s used.
Techincal details on the bug in question:
libgdiplus doesn’t like the compression of some of the UI images used. Off the top of my head, it was the route icon and a couple of others
Hopefully this version (Fork??) will work for you without needing any libraries downgrading, but if not, please open a bug on Github, and we can investigate properly.
Cheers
Chris Lees
Cheers for the info leezer3 … always nice to have a “proper” fix, and great to see the project resurrected
Welcome to the forum
[EDIT]
bvecornwall
You in Cornwall too ?
Once upon a time, yes
Grew up in a little village near Callington (Higher Metherell), and the parents are still there.
These days, I’m in Norwich, but I still build BVE routes based upon where I grew up.
The main site:
http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk
Edit:
(FWIW: I’m actively bug-hunting at the minute. I ran into this post looking for posts about bugs I don’t know about yet, and whilst we know about this one, I decided that it was new enough to leave a comment on )
Well we headed in (kinda) opposite directions then … I’m from the Midlands but now in St Austell (well Nanpean really).
I’ll give your nightlies a whirl as soon as I get time, and if I find any issues I’ll post em to your github repo.
Thanks again for posting the info