How to: Install Doomsday Engine (inc. snowberry) for ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

[Bluefist]

Installing Doomsday Engine for doom games (including snowberry launcher) on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 or 9.04.

Just a little how to for prosperity. Now, installing the doomsday engine is not difficult as it is available as a deb (compiled by Yagisan) from the dengine hq site here. The trick is in setting up the snowberry frontend as it is not included with the debs for ubuntu.

For the purpose of this guide I installed deng_1.9.0-beta6.6-1_i386.deb on hardy.

First make sure you have snowberry's dependencies: python and a recent wxpython (available here at wxpython.org)

To get a the latest wxpython add this key to your your apt's list of trusted keys

curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Add following to your sources list

deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ hardy-wx main
deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ hardy-wx main

Update your sources, then install python-wxgtk2.8 from synaptic

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

Then install snowberry

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/...runk/snowberry snowberry

Now open and edit "snowberry.py"

gksudo gedit /home/bluefist/snowberry/snowberry.py

Add "#!/usr/bin/python" without quotation marks as the first line in the script, and make it executable.

Now run snowberry.py from the terminal

cd /home/bluefist/snowberry/
python snowberry.py

Doomsday Engine Frontend should launch and start a setup wizard, tell it where the wads for doom, doom 2, hexen etc. are (I suggest a folder in your home folder called doomsday) and setup addons/display/sound settings to suite yourself.

Creating a launcher for the client, to do this I created a simple script in my home folder by opening a empty file (lets call it "snowberry launcher") and pasting in the following (replacing your name with mine) and Make the script executable.

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/bluefist/snowberry/
python snowberry.py
exit

Then you can just create a launcher on your desktop/ applications menu by pointing it at this script.

[afrodeity]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I've updated it here:

http://indlovu.wordpress.com/2010/08...-ubuntu-lucid/