Installing Glest

Glest is quite easy to install for Windows, though Linux has a few more methods. Locate the appropriate operating system package here.

Enabling 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.
Playing with a recent Intel onboard-graphics is also possible, but the video-quality has to be reduced (16 bit colors, no shadows, no 3D-textures, only 1 light source).
- Linux-Note: If unsure of the above requirements then it is possible to check graphics hardware-acceleration by running glxinfo or with an ATI driver fglrxinfo .
- Megaglest can be started with "glest.bin --opengl-info" to show openGL-information.
- See the DRI Wiki on how to determine if you use hardware- or software-rendering. With software-rendering glest is probably to slow to play it.

Download the Windows installer here. The installer will guide you through all the steps.

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!!)

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 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.