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. Arch
2. Chakra
3. Debian
4. Fedora
5. Foresight
6. Frugalware
7. Gentoo
8. OpenSUSE
9. Pardus GNU/Linux
10. Sabayon
11. Ubuntu
    1. Ubuntu provided packages
    2. 0 A.D. provided packages
    3. How to run the game
12. Compiling on Linux
13. How to get info on new releases

Arch

0 A.D. is available in the ​community repository. A ​SVN package is in the AUR.

Chakra

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

Debian

0 A.D. is available in Debian's repositories since Debian 7.0 Wheezy.

Install the package (requires root privileges):

apt-get install 0ad

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:

• If you're on Fedora 17, run: curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/games.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/obs-games.repo
• If you're on Fedora 16, run: curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_16/games.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/obs-games.repo
• Fedora 15 is no longer supported.

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."

Foresight

Install 0 A.D by executing following command:

sudo conary install 0ad=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Frugalware

0 A.D. is the the repositories, install the package:

repoman upd
repoman merge 0ad

Gentoo

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

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_12.2/
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_12.1/
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.4/
• 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."

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

Sabayon

Install 0 A.D. ​package using this command:

equo install 0ad

Ubuntu

Ubuntu provided packages

0 A.D. is available in Ubuntu's universe repository since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin). Install the packages by running:

sudo apt-get install 0ad

Updated releases are available in ​Ubuntu Backports repository.

0 A.D. provided packages

Alternatively, 0 A.D. packages are available from 0 A.D. ​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.)

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.

How to run the game

Run the game from the command-line as:

0ad

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

Compiling on Linux

You need two files:

• ​0ad-unix-build.tar.xz (8 MB) or ​0ad-unix-build.tar.gz (10 MB)
• ​0ad-unix-data.tar.xz (335 MB) or ​0ad-unix-data.tar.gz (420 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-0.0.11-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz
tar xvJf 0ad-0.0.11-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz

# Or, if your tar is older than 1.22:
xz -cd 0ad-0.0.11-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz | tar xv
xz -cd 0ad-0.0.11-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz | tar xv

# Or, if you downloaded the .gz version:
tar xvzf 0ad-0.0.11-alpha-unix-build.tar.gz
tar xvzf 0ad-0.0.11-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.