Red Eclipse 2 is a free and open-source first-person shooter game available for multiple platforms. In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing Red Eclipse 2 on NetBSD.
Before we install Red Eclipse 2, we need to make sure we have all the necessary dependencies installed. Open the terminal and run the following command:
pkg_add -v libsdl2 libogg libvorbis libopenal freetype2
This command will install the required libraries for Red Eclipse 2 to run.
Visit the official Red Eclipse 2 website at https://redeclipse.net/download and click on the "NetBSD" option to download the latest version of Red Eclipse 2 for NetBSD.
After the download is complete, navigate to the Downloads folder using the terminal:
cd Downloads
Red Eclipse 2 is provided as a compressed tarball file. To extract the package, run the following command in the terminal:
tar -xvf re-2.x.x.tar.gz
Replace "2.x.x" with the version number of the downloaded package.
This will extract the package to a new directory named "redeclipse".
After extracting the package, navigate to the extracted directory:
cd redeclipse
Now, you can start Red Eclipse 2 by running the following command:
./redeclipse.sh
This will launch the game. You can now start playing Red Eclipse 2 on NetBSD.
In this tutorial, we have installed Red Eclipse 2 on NetBSD. Make sure to have all the dependencies installed, download the latest package, extract it, and run the shell script to start the game. Enjoy playing Red Eclipse 2 on your NetBSD system!
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