Mindustry is an open-source sandbox tower defense game where you build and manage a complex industrial network of factories, mines, and conveyor belts while fending off hordes of enemy attackers. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mindustry on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, make sure you have the following:
Before installing any packages, it's always a good idea to update your system's package list and upgrade any existing packages to their latest versions. Run the following command to do that:
sudo pacman -Syu
Mindustry requires Java to run. To install Java on EndeavourOS Latest, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S jdk-openjdk
Now that Java is installed, we can download the Mindustry binary. To download the latest version of Mindustry, visit the official website and navigate to the downloads section. Click on the appropriate download link for your system. Alternatively, you can run the following command to download the Mindustry binary:
wget https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/releases/download/v6.0/Mindustry-linux64-6.0.zip
This will download the Mindustry binary to your current directory.
Once the download is complete, extract the contents of the downloaded zip file using the following command:
unzip Mindustry-linux64-6.0.zip
This will create a new directory named "Mindustry-linux64-6.0" in your current directory.
To run Mindustry, navigate to the extracted directory and run the following command:
./Mindustry.sh
This will launch the Mindustry game. You can now start playing the game!
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Mindustry on EndeavourOS Latest. We installed Java, downloaded the Mindustry binary from the official website, and extracted it. We also learned how to launch the game.
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