Minetest is a free, open-source voxel game engine that has been designed for creating games similar to Minecraft. It supports multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Minetest on Debian latest.
Before you start installing Minetest, make sure that you have an updated Debian system.
The installation of Minetest on Debian requires the following steps:
Before we install Minetest, we need to install some dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command to install the dependencies.
sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake libirrlicht-dev libbz2-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev libluajit-5.1-dev
After installing dependencies, we need to clone the Minetest repository. Open the terminal and run the following command to clone the Minetest repository:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
After cloning the repository, we need to build Minetest.
cd minetest/
cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1
make
After building Minetest, we need to install it on our system.
sudo make install
Once the installation is complete, we can run Minetest by typing the following command in the terminal:
minetest
In this tutorial, we have discussed how to install Minetest on Debian latest. We have seen how to install dependencies, clone the repository, build and install Minetest, and run it on Debian.
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