The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based, fantasy-themed strategy game. It can be installed on NixOS, a Linux-based operating system that provides declarative configuration management, atomic upgrades and rollbacks, and many other features.
This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing the latest version of The Battle for Wesnoth on NixOS.
Before we begin, make sure that:
Open a terminal window on your NixOS system.
Install the build dependencies required to build The Battle for Wesnoth from source:
sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gcc nixpkgs.make nixpkgs.boost nixpkgs.freetype nixpkgs.libxml2 nixpkgs.pkg-config nixpkgs.libxslt nixpkgs.libtool nixpkgs.icu nixpkgs.opus nixpkgs.libvorbis nixpkgs.ogg nixpkgs.flac nixpkgs.openal nixpkgs.luajit nixpkgs.python nixpkgs.boost-libs nixpkgs.libsdl2_image nixpkgs.libsdl2_mixer nixpkgs.libsdl2_ttf
Clone the Wesnoth Git repository:
git clone https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth.git
Change to the directory containing the cloned repository:
cd wesnoth
Configure the build process by running autogen.sh:
./autogen.sh
Build The Battle for Wesnoth from source using make:
make
Install The Battle for Wesnoth system-wide:
sudo make install
Change to the installation directory:
cd /usr/local/share/wesnoth
Launch The Battle for Wesnoth with the following command:
wesnoth
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and launched The Battle for Wesnoth on NixOS. Enjoy playing the game!
In this tutorial, you learned how to install The Battle for Wesnoth on NixOS. By following these steps, you can enjoy this popular strategy game on this powerful, Linux-based operating system.
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