How to install the latest version on Linux

Warning: The game is currently under heavy development, and many features are currently missing. This release is an alpha version, not a completed playable game - please check our site and forums for future updates!

The Linux packages are new and not well-tested, so please report any problems in our Bug reports forum here.

1. Ubuntu
2. OpenSUSE
3. Fedora
4. Gentoo
5. Arch
6. Pardus GNU/Linux
7. Chakra
8. Compiling on Linux
9. How to get info on new releases

Ubuntu

Install from our ​PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install 0ad

(If you get errors about unmet dependencies, check that you have the Universe repository enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.)

Run the game from the command-line as

0ad

or from the application menu item "Games" / "0 A.D."

Unstable version: You can try a more up-to-date but less-well-tested version from our ​development snapshot PPA, which should be updated each week. Follow the instructions above but use the ppa:wfg/0ad.dev repository name.

OpenSUSE

• Launch YaST.
• Select "Software" and "Software Repositories".
• Select "Add" and "Specify URL..."
• Enter one of the following URLs, with name "obs-games":
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Factory/
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.4/
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.3/
• It should prompt "Import Untrusted GnuPG Key" - these packages are not checked or trusted by OpenSUSE. You should not install them in security-critical environments. If you understand and accept the danger of installing unknown software, accept the import.
• Run "Install/Remove Software"
• Select "0ad" to install.

Run the game from the command-line as

0ad

or from the application menu item "0 A.D."

Fedora

First run:

su -

Then run one of the following commands:

• curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_15/games.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/obs-games.repo
• curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_14/games.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/obs-games.repo

Install the package:

yum install 0ad

It should prompt "Importing GPG key 0xC862B42C ... Is this ok?" - these packages are not checked or trusted by Fedora/Mandriva. You should not install them in security-critical environments. If you understand and accept the danger of installing unknown software, answer "y".

Exit from the su shell:

exit

Run the game from the command-line as

0ad

or from the application menu item "0 A.D."

Unstable version: Fedora: You can try a more up-to-date but less-well-tested version from a ​Fedora People repository.

Gentoo

See ​bug containing ebuilds (both latest release and latest SVN).

Arch

See ​releases and ​latest SVN packages.

Pardus GNU/Linux

For Pardus 2011,

• Add P2011 repository by executing following command:

pisi ar P2011 http://paketler.pardus-linux.org/P2011/{arch}/pisi-index.xml.xz -y

Replace {arch} with i686 or x86_64 depending on your Pardus Architecture

and install 0 A.D by executing following command:

pisi it 0ad

• If you don't want to add a repository, you can download and install PiSi package from ​http://paketler.pardus-linux.org/P2011

Chakra

It's ​available in games repository. See ​Chakra wiki for additional information.

Compiling on Linux

You need two files:

• ​0ad-unix-build.tar.xz (4 MB) or ​0ad-unix-build.tar.gz (6 MB)
• ​0ad-unix-data.tar.xz (136 MB) or ​0ad-unix-data.tar.gz (161 MB)

The .xz files are smaller but may require you to install ​XZ Utils.

Extract both files to the same location:

# Extract .xz version into the current directory:
tar xvJf 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz
tar xvJf 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz

# Or, if your tar is older than 1.22:
xz -cd 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz | tar xv
xz -cd 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz | tar xv

# Or, if you downloaded the .gz version:
tar xvzf 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-build.tar.gz
tar xvzf 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-data.tar.gz

Then follow the build instructions using the files from this release instead of downloading from SVN.

How to get info on new releases

There are several ways to be notified when a new release is out, as well as getting notified on other updates, either by subscribing to the ​email mail list, following ​0 A.D. on Twitter or ​Facebook, or the ​RSS feed.