Debian install

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Debian

6.0 (Squeeze - Unstable)

Official packages are available at usual mirrors so just:

sudo apt-get install spring
sudo apt-get install springlobby

will give you the latest packaged and uploaded release of spring for debian.

Debians info page for the spring packages can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/spring

The packages from unstable are usually up to date, if you always want to use the latests spring packages you should add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

If you don't want to use unstable for your system you need to use apt pinning or add a file with the following content in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ (i.e. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99default):

APT::Default-Release "stable";

5.0 (Lenny)

Version tested: 0.79.1.2

1. Install needed packages for compiling (as superuser or sudoer)
   
   aptitude install build-essential p7zip-full zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl1.2-dev libopenal-dev libglew-dev libdevil-dev zip libvorbis-dev libxcursor-dev libglew1.5-dev libboost1.35-dev cmake libwxgtk2.8-dev


2. Unpack Spring tarball, cd into its directory and compile (as user)
   
   cd spring-directory
cmake .
make


3. Install as superuser or sudoer
   
   make install


4. Unpack Spring Lobby, cd into its directory, compile and install
   
   cd springlobby-directory
./configure --disable-torrent-system --disable-sound
make


5. Install as superuser or sudoer
   
   make install

Optional:

You can install checkinstall and create a deb package by substituting make install with:

checkinstall make install

This will create a deb file along with installing it so next time you can remove it with:

dpkg -r spring-<version> springlobby

4.0 (Etch)

This is not updated for 0.76b1. Somebody check if the install succeeds for the new release this way?

This is for version 0.75b2.

We need to use Yokozar's Ubuntu package, so we need some tricks.

The --build step will take about 15 minutes. Hopefully we have precompiled binaries for etch soon too.

wget -q http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu/387EE263.gpg -O- | \
    sudo apt-key add -

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu/sources.list.d/gutsy.list \
    -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/springproject.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep spring -y
sudo apt-get --build source spring -y
sudo dpkg -i spring_0.75~b2-1_i386.deb spring-data_0.75~b2-1_all.deb

If you want to install SpringLobby also, follow the instructions later on in this guide.

Your paths are: Spring executable in /usr/games/spring and read-only data in /usr/share/games/spring.

See Also:

• Finalizing_linux_install
• Troubleshooting_linux