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Revision as of 21:22, 2 January 2015
There are various packages of BZFlag available to many different distributions.
Contents
Compiling from Source
This document is not designed to cover information about compiling.
→ Main article: Compiling
see also ubuntu_and_bzflag_2.4
Installing from tarball
You extract it and run the install script as root.
tar -vzxf package.tar.gz cd bzflag-2.4.2 ./configure --prefix=/install/path make sudo make install
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.
Arch
# pacman -S bzflag
Gentoo
# emerge bzflag
External Links
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/files/ Official BZFlag file repository on SourceForge
- http://packages.debian.org/sid/bzflag BZFlag-packages for debian sid in the official debian repository