Ubuntu

Developers only

Please note that the following instructions are for developers who want to download and build the most recent changes of the source code and consider changing it in the future. If you only want to try out and play a stable version of Orxonox you should go to this page and follow the instructions on how to install the Orxonox deb-package on Ubuntu.

Tested on

We try to test Orxonox as often as possible and try to ensure to always have a running version in our trunk. Below there is a table of the most recent tests with different hardware and versions of Orxonox, Ubuntu and graphics drivers.

Hardware	Ubuntu ver.	Orxonox ver. / Revision	Tester	Date	Result	Graphics Driver ver.
IBM T42	Hardy Heron (8.04)	r2131	Benjamin Knecht?	09.11.2008	success	-
IBM T42	Intrepid Ibex (8.10)	r2131	Benjamin Knecht?	09.11.2008	success	-
IBM T61p	Intrepid Ibex (8.10)	r2131	Benjamin Knecht?	09.11.2008	success	-
Lenovo W500	Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)	r5761	Damian Frick?	23.09.2009	success	-
Lenovo W500	Karmic Koala (9.10)	r6020	Damian Frick?	02.11.2009	success	-
Lenovo W500	Lucid Lynx (10.04)	r6812	Damian Frick?	30.04.2010	success	-
Lenovo W500	Maverick Meercat (10.10)	r7541	Damian Frick?	24.10.2010	success	-
IBM X60t	Maverick Meerkat (10.10)	r7639	Oliver Scheuss?	11.11.2010	success	-
Sony Vaio CW	Lucid Lynx (10.04)	r7750	Benjamin Knecht?	08.12.2010	success	Nvidia 256.35

Dependencies

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

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libogre-dev libenet-dev \
libvorbis-dev libalut-dev libcegui-mk2-dev tcl-dev libboost-date-time-dev \
libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev liblua5.1-0-dev subversion

Building

Now follow the steps described on the building page.

If you experience problems running Orxonox after building it on your own, see this page or contact us.

Development with your favorite IDE

If you would like to use KDevelop, Code::Blocks or Eclipse for coding, see this page? for further information.