The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, open-source strategy game available for a variety of platforms. In this tutorial, we will cover how to install The Battle for Wesnoth on Alpine Linux Latest using the source code hosted on GitHub.
Before we install The Battle for Wesnoth, we need to ensure that our system has all the required dependencies installed. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apk add git build-base cmake sdl2-dev sdl2-image-dev sdl2-mixer-dev boost-dev
This command will install Git, the Build Base package, the CMake build system, the SDL2 libraries, the SDL2 Image library, the SDL2 Mixer library, and the Boost libraries.
Next, we need to clone the Wesnoth repository from GitHub onto our local system. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth.git
This command will create a new directory named "wesnoth" in your current working directory and download the source code into it.
With the repository cloned onto our system, we can now build and install The Battle for Wesnoth. To do this, navigate to the newly created "wesnoth" directory and run the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
sudo make install
These commands will create a new directory named "build" within the "wesnoth" directory, run CMake to configure the build, compile the Wesnoth source code, and install the game on your system.
With The Battle for Wesnoth installed on your system, you can now launch the game and start playing. To start the game, open a terminal and run the following command:
wesnoth
This will launch The Battle for Wesnoth, and you can start playing immediately.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed The Battle for Wesnoth on Alpine Linux Latest.
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