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There are various packages of BZFlag available to many different distributions.

Compiling from Source

This document is not designed to cover information about compiling.

→ Main article: Compiling

Installing from tarball

You extract it and run the install script as root.

Installing using a package manager

This depends on your distribution. Different distributions use different package managers.

To understand the command lines please understand:

$ indicates a user shell
# indicates a root shell

$ sudo is replaceable by #

Graphical Package Managers

Search for "BZFlag" and install it.
BZFlag will most likely be sorted to the Games category.

Fedora / Red Hat / Mandriva / SUSE

$ sudo yum install bzflag

For the server package:

$ sudo yum install bzflag-server

Native RPM

$ sudo rpm -ivh bzflag.x86.208.rpm

Ubuntu / Debian

$ sudo apt-get install bzflag

For the server package:

$ sudo apt-get install bzflag-server

Other Debian / DPKG

If you're only using the DPKG/Apt package manager you will be abled to install your downloaded package with the following command:

# dpkg -i package.deb

Replace package.deb with the particular package you want to install (e.g. bzflag-2.0.13.deb).

Download required packages from here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/bzflag

bzflag
bzflag-data
bzflag-client
bzflag-server

Please note that you need to resolve any further dependencies yourself, DPKG can't do this for you.

Gentoo

# emerge bzflag

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-This is how to install. To compile, see [[:Category:Compiling|Compiling]].
+There are various packages of BZFlag available to many different distributions.
+== Compiling from Source ==
+This document is not designed to cover information about compiling.
+{{main|Compiling}}
 == Installing from tarball ==
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 == Installing using a package manager ==
-This depends on your distribution.  But for example:
+This depends on your distribution. Different distributions use different package managers.
-  $ sudo rpm -ivh bzflag.x86.208.rpm
+To understand the command lines please understand:
+ $ ''indicates a user shell''
+ # ''indicates a root shell''
+  $ sudo ''is replaceable by'' #
+=== Graphical Package Managers ===
+Search for "BZFlag" and install it.<br />
+BZFlag will most likely be sorted to the Games category.
 === Fedora / Red Hat / Mandriva / SUSE ===
   $ sudo yum install bzflag
 For the server package:
   $ sudo yum install bzflag-server
+=== Native RPM ===
+ $ sudo rpm -ivh bzflag.x86.208.rpm
 === Ubuntu / Debian ===
@@ Line 19: / Line 36: @@
 For the server package:
   $ sudo apt-get install bzflag-server
+=== Other Debian / DPKG ===
+If you're only using the DPKG/Apt package manager you will be abled to install your downloaded package with the following command:
+ # dpkg -i package.deb
+Replace package.deb with the particular package you want to install (e.g. bzflag-2.0.13.deb).
+Download required packages from here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/bzflag
+* bzflag
+* bzflag-data
+* bzflag-client
+* bzflag-server
+Please note that you need to resolve any further dependencies yourself, DPKG can't do this for you.
 === Gentoo ===