help with my first linux game

[necorium]

as the time of my first linux OS approaches i find myself looking at games. now i know most of my windows games won't work but i'm talking about real linux games. i've found one which i really like the look of. the only problem is that when i go to the download page i see that there are different versions to download for different versions of linux. this really confuses me - there's no mention of ubuntu there either and i'm not sure which ones are close to ubuntu and that would work, the games download page is http://www.wormux.org/en/download.php please can someone point me to the right version to get for ubuntu (i'm downloading the latest versionof ubuntu)

thanks a lot - you guys rock \\:D/

[heimo]

Here's a thread you want to look:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5153

I play games very rarely, but I really enjoy some tucracing (tucracer) when I want to relax. Avaiable in Ubuntu repositories.
sudo apt-get install tuxracer

EDIT: Oh... and you don't want to miss xbill.

[fordfan753]

Download the source (.tar.bz2) file.
Extract it using...

$ bzip2 -d [file]
$ tar -xvf [file]

Then
$ cd [extracted directory]
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

This is the method used to install 90% of source files, hope it helps.

[fordfan753]

$ bzip2 -d [file]
$ tar -xvf [file]


Instead of
$ bzip2 -d [file]
$ tar -xvf [file]
a lot of source packages are .tar.gzip format
this requires
$ gunzip [file]
$ tar -xvf [file]

[heimo]

i'm not sure which ones are close to ubuntu and that would work


Debian. You could try (at your own risk) to add these to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.gna.org/wormux/package/debian/ /
deb-src http://download.gna.org/wormux/package/debian/src/ / And running on terminal:
sudo apt-get install wormux

[necorium]

hmm.. i really don't understand any of that.
is there no way i can just download a game and unzip it?
this is starting to scare me..

[necorium]

what games come bundled with the latest version of ubuntu?

[necorium]

ok the bit i really understand is thta i must get the tar.bz2 file. thats understandable but i don't understand any of the code??

[fng]

there are a lot of games that come with ubuntu :
nethack, tuxracer, supertux, frozen bubble, crack-attack, bastet, slashem, ...

How to install them?
Here is a how-to for frozen-bubble : http://ubuntuguide.org/#frozen-bubble
It works the same way for all the above games.
And there are a lot more.

[bored2k]

America's Army is a must have FPS [if you don't know what FPS in gaming means, you don't need to play this]. YOu can get the linux version from americasarmy.com and simply in a command line terminal doing: sh filename.sh.

[necorium]

yeah i know fps games. i'm a quake III junkie. downloaded AA a while ago but i just hate the words AMERICA and ARMY too close to each other. also i like frantic deathmatches not simulation of what its supposedly like to be in americas army. Its sorta like propoganda when you think about it. Little kids play AA and wanna join the army cause its so fun to shoot people.

On another note i'd like to thank all of you with your help. i think i'm starting to come to grips with things. can't install linux till next week - don't wanna risk messing up pc until presentations r over.. so long :( anyway i'm sure i'll be posting a zillion questions when i have it installed

later :-#

[Zyphrexi]

enemy-territory is good.

[nubbe]

Why not dl the static linux version, uncompress, make the file launch.sh executable,

chmod +x launch.sh

and then run it with :

sh launch.sh

[WW]

Before Zyhprexi, the last post in this thread was from 2005. If you follow the link provided by the original poster, you will find that ubuntu versions of the game are now available.