Installing Glest

Linux

Download Glest

Start by downloading the right package for you here
NOTE: If you are using YaST it automatically downloads.

Enable hardware-accelerated 3D

To run Glest you'll need to have hardware-accelrated 3D graphics enabled. This means

• Having a graphics card that is capable of 3D acceleration
• Having a graphics card driver that is capable of 3D acceleration
• Having OpenGL installed.

This usually means having an ATI or NVidia grpahics card, and having the proprietary driver for X.org from those manufacturers installed and working. You can check if you have your graphics hardware-accelerated by running glxinfo (or fglrxinfo with the ATI driver). The OpenGL renderer string should be something other than Mesa. If you have Mesa your graphics are software-accelerated. This will not give you anywhere near the same performance, and Glest will be unplayable.

Install Glest

Kubuntu Dapper

1. Run apt-get install libopenal0
2. Make the Loki installer executable with chmod +x glest_2.0.0-multilanguage.run
3. Run the Loki installer and follow the failry idiot-proof instructions

• If you will be installing glest into your home directory, you can run the installer directly: ./glest_2.0.0-multilanguage.run
• If you will be installing glest elsewhere so that all users can run it, you should run the installer as root: sudo ./glest_2.0.0-multilanguage.run

Open SUSE 10.2

1. Open YaST and click Installation Source
2. Add an online update server, click finish
3. In YaST click on Software Management
4. Change the filter to patterns or Package Groups and go to games
5. Check the glest and glest-data options
6. Click accept and agree to the changes

Glest will then download and install.
You can run glest from the menu under Games->Tactics & Strategy.

Find glest.ini

If you used the Loki installed and chose the default install location, you'll find glest.ini in /usr/local/games/glest.ini. If it's not there, and you don't know where it is, run updatedb && locate glest.ini

Screen Resolution

Change the screen resolution to something appropriate for you. In glest.ini, set ScreenHeight and ScreenWidth

Choose Window mode

If you'd like glest to be windowed, set Windowed to 1

Run glest

KDE

If you are running KDE as your window manager, you might find that ARts, the KDE sound server, holds the sound card open and prevents Glest from accessing it. In this case, Glest will exit fairly quickly with the message Cannot open /dev/dsp: device or resource busy. It's best to suspend ARts before starting glest, by running glest like this: artsshell suspend && glest

Other window managers

Just type glest at the command prompt.

Windows

Download the binary(.exe) and install it like any other application.