How to Install Wesnoth 1.6 from Source in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
Posted by Admin on April 11th, 2009
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Preparing your system
First you need to make sure you have the following packages installed and you also make sure you have deb-src enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list file
#apt-get update
#apt-get install build-essential build-dep wesnoth
#apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-pango-dev
Install Wesnoth 1.6 from Source
First you need to download the Wesnoth source from here
or using the following command
#wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6a.tar.bz2
Now you need to extract the tar.bz2 file
#tar -xjf wesnoth-1.6a.tar.bz2
#cd wesnoth-1.6a
#./configure
#make
#make install
Note:- If you want to specify the installation location use this syntax
./configure
--prefix=/home/username/usr
That’s it now Wesnoth 1.6 installed on your debian lenny system.
Using Wesnoth 1.6
You can open from your games section or press ALT+F2 and type wesnoth click on run dialogue box this should open wesnoth game
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