Fs2 open on Linux/Acquiring the Game Data
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This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)
Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). This thread on the SCP forum has some more info on it : http://scp.indiegames.us/forum_viewtopic.php?3.282
There are three ways of doing this,
- Copy the files over from an existing FS2 Windows install (by mounting the Win partition), or
- Use Wine to install the game in the right directory, using the Setup.exe found on the first CD, or,
- Extract the files manually from the CD.
The third method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.
