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For the server package:
 
For the server package:
 
  $ sudo apt-get install bzflag-server
 
  $ 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 ===
 
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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
* http://bzflag.org/downloads Official BZFlag links to downloads
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* [http://bzflag.org/downloads Download page for the latest binaries and source]
* https://download.bzflag.org/bzflag/source/2.4.6/ Link to the Official BZFlag source code download
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* http://packages.debian.org/sid/bzflag BZFlag-packages for debian sid in the official debian repository
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Revision as of 15:02, 4 July 2016

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

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

$ sudo yum install bzflag

For the server package:

$ sudo yum install bzflag-server

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install bzflag

For the server package:

$ sudo zypper 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

Arch

# pacman -S bzflag


Gentoo

# emerge bzflag

External Links