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Thanks, that fixed the bzip2 problem, but after the installation procedure (with the Application manager), I get the yellow popup window saying OpenDune cannot install. And the mystery still remains why it stopped working in the first place.

Probably because postinst tries to download from dead links. fixed.
I also tried to upgrade to latest version but there are some problems with sound. Needs more investigation.

Still won't install. I actually see it installed and there are opendune files and I can successfully uninstall it, but there is no OpenDune icon so I can't start the game.
(this is not new, it was happening when I first saw a problem a few days ago)

So it looks like what originally happened was that OpenDune would not start because it could not find dune,cfg in MyDocs/games/DUNE2, and this is because my MyDocs got destroyed. This a guess, though.

Then, running opendune.sh from /home/opt/usr/games, it compains it cannot load the data file. The data file should, I guess, come from /usr/share/games/opendune/data, which has a put_dune2_here.txt file.

To summarize, I think originally OpenDune could not run because of my MyDocs mishap, and now it won't run because the fresh install is not correct.

In my /usr/share/games/opendune folder there are 'data' symlink to '/home/user/MyDocs/Games/DUNE2/' folder. You copied/already have original dune files in /usr/share/games/opendune/data/?
You can also check output of 'apt-get remove opendune' and 'apt-get install opendune'. Installer should download data files for you but I think postinstall script fails for some reason.

No, my files are different:

/usr/share/games/opendune $ cd data
/usr/share/games/opendune/data $ ls
dune.cfg put_dune2_here.txt

~/MyDocs/Games/DUNE2 $ ls
~/MyDocs/Games/DUNE2 $

Ok will check apt-get.

Here is what happened:

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install opendune
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bzip2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bzip2 opendune
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 243kB of archives.
After this operation, 631kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
bzip2
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://maemo.muarf.org ./ bzip2 1:1.0.5-3+0m5 [51.5kB]
Get:2 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free opendune 0.7.2555-maemo9 [192kB]
Fetched 243kB in 3s (65.9kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package bzip2.
(Reading database ... 37880 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bzip2 (from .../bzip2_1%3a1.0.5-3+0m5_armel.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package opendune.
Unpacking opendune (from .../opendune_0.7.2555-maemo9_armel.deb) ...
Setting up bzip2 (1:1.0.5-3+0m5) ...
Setting up opendune (0.7.2555-maemo9) ...
ln: /opt/maemo/usr/share/games/opendune/data: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing opendune (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
opendune
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Nokia-N900:~#

try 'apt-get update' first, I pushed opendune 0.7.2555-maemo10 to repositories yesterday. Then 'apt-get remove opendune' (if you have opendune already installed).
You can also try 'rm -rf /opt/maemo/usr/share/games/opendune/data'
If that doesn't help you can delete (or create) /opt/maemo/usr/share/games/opendune

I tried. It looks like what helps is creating /opt/maemo/usr/share/games/opendune/data
(it's not there before I attempt an install, and it's not there after the faulty install)

Then during install, there is a progress window saying it's downloading data - I've never seen that before.

Then once it's finished, there is a correct Dune icon in the list of apps, and there are files in the data directory - cool - but tapping on the icon does not start Dune.

I suspect that this package was broken at last three years
New version is in repos and this time I also included updated scenario.pak file.

Try to update your repositries (apt-get update) and try to uninstall&install opendune once more.
Thank you for your patience!