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Installing on Linux
This is how to install. To compile, see Compiling.
Installing from tarball
You extract it and run the install script as root.
Installing using a package manager
This depends on your distribution. But for example:
$ sudo rpm -ivh bzflag.x86.208.rpm
Fedora / Red Hat / Mandriva / SUSE
$ sudo yum install bzflag
For the server package:
$ sudo yum install bzflag-server
Ubuntu / Debian
$ sudo apt-get install bzflag
For the server package:
$ sudo apt-get install bzflag-server
Gentoo
# emerge bzflag