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Before you begin, make sure you have write permissions on your current working directory. $HOME/$USER is a pretty safe bet. I recommend that you create a permanent /$HOME/$USER/src directory from which you run the CVS command, this way CVS will only update the files changed the next time you download the source and it's always nice to have things organized. Make sure you have CVS installed on your system. See the [[Fs2_open_on_Linux/Installing CVS|Installing CVS]] chapter on installing CVS.
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Before you begin, make sure you have write permissions on your current working directory. $HOME/$USER is a pretty safe bet. I recommend that you create a permanent /$HOME/$USER/src directory from which you run the git command, this way git will only update the files changed the next time you download the source and it's always nice to have things organized. Make sure you have git installed on your system. See the [[Fs2_open_on_Linux/Installing Git|Installing Git]] chapter on installing Git.
  
 
Now get the source. Run from a terminal:
 
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This tells the CVS tool to first use a password file for authentication (pserver), that you are user "anonymous" with the password "anonymous" who wants to access warpcore.org's CVS repository "/home/fs2source/cvsroot" and login.
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  $ git clone https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com.git
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Next, get the code from the server we just connected to, either from the development branch:
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Both of the last two commands tell the CVS server that we want to checkout (co) the CVS module "fs2_open". Either from the default branch (the development branch - HEAD) or from the branch determined by the "-r" option. In the latter checkout we specified the branch "fs2_open_3_6_9" (implying the release 3.6.9 of FS2 Open), but this naming is only due to "historical reasons" - release specific branches don't exist at the time being, we will get the most recent stable code available by using that checkout.  
 
 
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[[Category:FreeSpace Open on Linux|Acquiring the Code]]

Latest revision as of 04:32, 3 May 2015

« Installing the Development Libraries The fs2_open on Linux Guide
Acquiring the Code 		Pre-Compile Configuration »

Note: This step is only for those who want the bleeding-edge source code to compile on their own. You can skip this if you intend to use a provided binary executable.

Before you begin, make sure you have write permissions on your current working directory. $HOME/$USER is a pretty safe bet. I recommend that you create a permanent /$HOME/$USER/src directory from which you run the git command, this way git will only update the files changed the next time you download the source and it's always nice to have things organized. Make sure you have git installed on your system. See the Installing Git chapter on installing Git.

Now get the source. Run from a terminal: 

$ git clone https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com.git

This will pull in the most recent source code from the 'master' branch.

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