Debian GNU/Linux

Edited: 15. Sep. 2008 by Felix?
Checked: 13. Feb. 2008 by Nowic? on Debian Lenny (Testing)

Unfortunately there is no package available for Orxonox yet. We're eager to release one, though. Until then, you can get a copy of Orxonox' source code and build it on your own. If you experience problems, see this page or contact us.

Dependencies

To install all tools and libraries Orxonox needs, use the following command

user@debian:~> sudo aptitude install build-essential cmake libogre-dev libois-dev libboost-thread-dev libopenal-dev libalut-dev libenet-dev libfreeimage-dev libzzip-dev liblua5.1-0-dev tcl8.4-dev

Get the Source Code

Now create a folder for Orxonox. Then get a copy of the code by checking out the trunk via anonymous subversion login . This will download the latest stable version to the directory trunk. If you have trouble using SVN, go here?.

user@debian:~> mkdir orxonox
user@debian:~> cd orxonox
user@debian:~/orxonox> svn co http://svn.orxonox.net/orxonox/trunk trunk

You won't be able to contribute your own code (check in) with the anonymous subversion repository. You have to ask us for a username/password combination. If you already have an account, check the code out like this:

user@debian:~/orxonox> svn co https://svn.orxonox.net/orxonox/trunk trunk

You will then be asked for the username and password, that you got from us.

Furthermore, you will need to check our data repository. This repository contains all the graphics, fonts and sounds and other third-party data for Orxonox. To check it out use the command:

user@debian:~/orxonox> svn co https://svn.orxonox.net/data/Media Media

Now make sure, you have set the correct path to your media directory in the file bin/orxonox.ini.

Compiling

Just cd to the trunk directory, then execute configure and make and finally run the game:

user@debian:~/orxonox> cd trunk
user@debian:~/orxonox/trunk> cmake .
...
user@debian:~/orxonox/trunk> make
...
user@debian:~/orxonox/trunk> ./run