Fs2 open on Linux/Acquiring the Game Data: Difference between revisions

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The fs2_open on Linux Guide
Acquiring the Game Data

This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)

Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). This thread on the SCP forum has some more info on it : http://scp.indiegames.us/forum_viewtopic.php?3.282

There are three ways of doing this,

Copy the files over from an existing FS2 Windows install (by mounting the Win partition), or
Use Wine to install the game in the right directory, using the Setup.exe found on the first CD, or,
Extract the files manually from the CD.

The third method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.

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 Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). This thread on the SCP forum has some more info on it : http://scp.indiegames.us/forum_viewtopic.php?3.282
-There are two ways of doing this,
+There are three ways of doing this,
+* Copy the files over from an existing FS2 Windows install (by mounting the Win partition), or
 * Use [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] to install the game in the right directory, using the Setup.exe found on the first CD, or,
 * Extract the files manually from the CD.
-The second method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.
+The third method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.