A Dark Room is a popular text-based game that can be played online via a web browser, downloaded as an app on your mobile device, or installed on your computer. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install A Dark Room on Alpine Linux Latest, a lightweight and secure operating system.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
First, we need to install some dependencies required by A Dark Room. Open a terminal window and enter the following command:
sudo apk add nodejs npm
This command will install Node.js and NPM on your system if they are not already installed. Node.js is required to run JavaScript applications like A Dark Room, while NPM is used to manage the software packages.
Next, we need to clone the A Dark Room repository from GitHub. To do this, enter the following command in your terminal window:
git clone https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom.git
This will download the entire A Dark Room repository to your local system.
Navigate to the A Dark Room directory by entering the following command:
cd adarkroom
Now that we're inside the A Dark Room directory, we can install the required packages by running the following command:
npm install
This command will install all the required packages and their dependencies, including ExpressJS and Socket.IO.
Finally, we can run A Dark Room by executing the following command:
npm start
This command will start the A Dark Room server on port 8080. You can access the game by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed A Dark Room on Alpine Linux Latest. Have fun playing!
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