Advanced Strategic Command

[pasmith]

Has anyone got this to work under Ubuntu?
Advanced Strategic Command (http://www.asc-hq.org/)

It comes as RPMs or as source. As a newbie Ubuntu user, both these options frighten me. :)

I've heard that there's a way to load RPMs in Ubuntu, but I don't know the details.

And while I've compiled things before (apache, mostly) the list of dependencies is somewhat intimidating:

1. SDL 1.2
2. SDL Image
3. SDL Mixer 1.2
4. SDLmm
5. libSigC++ 1.2 (NEW)
6. Paragui 1.0.1 (optional)

So I was hoping that there was an Ubuntu package out there somewhere. Otherwise, any advice as to how I should proceed? Does the Ubuntu installation even give us compiling tools?

Thanks in advance!

[UPDATE: I see its available for Hoary: http://higgs.djpig.de/ubuntu/www/hoary/games/asc

How stable is Hoary? Should i just upgrade? This is just my home system to play around on...no vital info on it, at least not yet.

[Dylanby]

Go to the wiki (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrontPage) and search for APT-Pinning.
You can install single packages from Hoary without upgrading your whole system.

[pasmith]

Thanks for the info.

I tried installing the package but there're some broken dependencies which I can't seem to fix (it needs updated libraries and I can't seem to get them from Warty or Hoary). I guess I'll just wait for Hoary to ripen, and play in Windoze until then.

Still, its useful to know how to get packages from other distributions, so thanks again!