Installing Glest

Linux

Download Glest

Locate the appropriate operating system package here

Enable 3D Hardware-Acceleration

Glest requires 3d accelerated hardware and drivers

• graphics card capable of 3D acceleration
• graphics card drivers capable of 3D acceleration
• OpenGL installed.

This usually means having an ATI or NVidia graphics card and the proprietary drivers installed and working. If unsure of the above requirements then it is possible to check graphics hardware-acceleration 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

(K)Ubuntu 8.04-9.10

• Method 1: Go into Add/Remove, and install Glest from there.

• Method 2: Go into teminal, and type the command: "sudo apt-get install glest" (without quotes) enter your sudo password, and that should do it.

• Method 3: Download Windows version, and use WINE. (Not Recommended if you plan to use multiplayer!!)

• Method 4: Use Loki installer

• Method 5: Compile Source for Glest.

Kubuntu Dapper

• Run apt-get install libopenal0
• Make the Loki installer executable with chmod +x glest_2.0.0-multilanguage.run
• Run the Loki installer and follow the 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

• Open YaST and click Installation Source
• Add an online update server, click finish
• In YaST click on Software Management
• Change the filter to patterns or Package Groups and go to games
• Check the glest and glest-data options
• 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 installed Glest with a package manager(add/remove), then it will be located in:

        8.04-9.04: /home/<username>/.glest/

        9.10: /home/<username>/.config/glest/

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

Choose Window mode and screen resolution

• Glest in a window set Windowed to 1
• Glest resolution settings: In glest.ini set ScreenHeight and ScreenWidth

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