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