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Someone jewwed on the installer - Unvanquished-0.9.0-linux-installer.run is linked as newest linux version.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unvanqu ... les/Linux/ has up to 9 but /Windows/ has up to 13

[00:29] <Ishq> The linux binaries were buggy...
[00:29] <Ishq> BUT
[00:30] <Ishq> I do have a tarball if you want that
[00:30] <Ishq> somegamer: http://www.unvanquished.net/_modi/daemon.tar.xz
[00:31] <Ishq> Note, not sure it will work
[00:31] <Ishq> One of the reasons I stopped making the installers.

sha256sum unva-from-ishq-daemon.tar.xz
e2b90cbc68abff40725fb3c4aa6fbcba41b6a4479931675e5435906c970d1d4b unva-from-ishq-daemon.tar.xz

Not too many people have been requesting a plain Linux installer to begin with. A lot of our Linux users seem fine with compiling from source or using one of the distribution-specific packages. However, if there's really a strong demand for a universal Linux installer, we'll probably figure that out towards beta. At the moment, too many things are changing on a monthly basis, which would make it a nightmare to support the Linux installer every time there's a new library we're using, or even a new version of a library. Not all distributions are on the same version of things.

Be a pro. Compile it on your own.

Compiling is remarkably easy, the only annoying part is waiting for the source to download the first time around, and then the very first time you run make.

kharnov wrote:

Compiling is remarkably easy, the only annoying part is waiting for the source to download the first time around, and then the very first time you run make.

• compile -> no, I'm here to play

• the .deb -> no, I don't run random binaries from intertubes as root

• some 0config - well this is a hot topic now days. If you scripted making .deb why not script making that self extracting thing too?

In windows you click on .exe and done.
Linux should be as easy, especially for gamers.

Its really hard to make a one-size-fits-all type of binary for linux machines. Unlike windows or mac, there are many different variations of linux. This makes creating a binary that installs for every distro a very hard thing to achieve. Specific distros may create their own packaging systems, in which they create a binary that works on their distribution, but that is impractical for us to do, because there are simply too many packaging systems/distros. Once we hit beta, we will probably contact packagers in major distros to create packages for us, but in our current unfinished state, we change too rapidly for traditional packaging. Since install binaries are generally not worth the trouble, compiling provides a nice solution so that everyone can run the game.