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The Linux port is complete; and the information was outdated. Better to lead people to the updated linux setup guide.
 
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Spring is running on Linux''!''
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But it's not ready for a release, networking and sound need love for example.
 
The Linux porting effort is underway at BerliOS.<br>
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/taspring-linux/<br>
The old location for Linux development was https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/taspring_linux/trac.cgi/wiki<br>
 
The Linux porting mailinglist can be found at http://lolut.utbm.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taspring-linux a move to the mailinglist provided by BerliOS is posible in the (near) future.
 
 
 
[[Image:Screen1.jpg|center]]
The first sceenshot of Spring running on Linux.
 
=Running Spring via wine=
 
Even though a native Linux port of Spring is progressing well you can play Spring on Linux using [http://winehq.org/ Wine]:
 
'''''This is unconfirmed, if it's not working please figure it out and update this wiki page!'''''<br>
And if you had success with these guidelines please let us know.
 
 
'''1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.'''<br>
'''2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.'''<br>
'''3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.'''<br>
 
 
'''1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.'''<br>
Just use the version included with your distribution.<br>
You can try to compile from source but that probably just more difficult.
 
'''2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.'''<br>
Spring is a fully 3D game and will require those. This usually means you have to install the nVidia/Ati comercial drivers.
Just install the package from you distribution.
If you're having problems installing these, you'll also probably find better help at their web sites.
Don't expect much from the Spring forum as they almost all run MS Windows.
 
 
To know if you have 3D acceleration working, you can execute in a comand line the comand:
glxinfo
If it shows the line:
direct rendering: yes
You probably have them working.
 
 
'''3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.'''<br>
* If you already have Spring installed in Windows, make sure that partition is accessible in Linux, use a comand line to change directory (cd) into it and execute:
wine TASClient.exe
* If you don't have Spring installed yet, install it executing in a comand line where the installer file is located:
wine taspring_0.63b2.exe
(or whatever else the installer might be called)
Then, change directory to where you installed it to, generally:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/TASpring
(the comand line only accepts " " spaces in paths if they have an "\" before, like: cd Program\ Files)
And, similarly, execute:
wine TASClient.exe
 
My Linux instalation, Suse Linux 9.3, installed by default Wine and had the option, through the YOU auto-updating tool, to automatically install the commercial drivers. If your distribution also has such options, it can save you much work.
 
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