Guide to FS Open on Linux

Warning: This guide assumes some fundamental command line knowledge. As a rule of thumb, do not copy & paste commands without fully understanding them, especially as root. With great power comes great responsibility.

Note: This article has undergone major reconstructions. Questions, recommendations and hatemail go in Discussion.

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Installing Subversion
  • Installing the Development Libraries
• Acquiring the Code
• Pre-Compile Configuration
  • Optimization
• Compiling
  • Compile Script
• Acquiring the Game Data
  • Extracting data from CD
    • Installing unshield
      • Data Installation script
• Post-Compile Configuration
  • Graphics Settings
  • StartUp Script
• Troubleshooting
  • Common Compile-time Errors
    • Novell SuSE and the Dependencies
    • SDL: undefined reference to ...
    • Missing -lGLU compile error
  • Common Runtime Errors
    • ERROR: "Web cursor bitmap not found."
    • I18n and Key mapping problems
    • Dedicated X Display
    • Joystick Errors