If you have installed the game but still have problems running it or if you cannot compile the source distribution, try to look at the Frequently Asked Questions page, which contains a section related to installation problems.
Latest Release
You can still download the Older Releases. They can be useful if you want a binary for a system for which the latest release has not been packaged yet. Please keep in mind that Internet game will most likely not work with older releases. (See What version should i choose to play in the FAQ.)
Compilation requirements
For source tarbal, Mercurial source, and package installations, you'll also need to install these packages:
Optional:
Installation by Operating System and Distribution:
Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux
- Please download the latest .deb package from the download section above, and install it as you would install any ordinary Debian package:
- You can now run Globulation 2 by typing
glob2
- You can also use the integrate glob2 package using
apt-get install glob2
but most likely it is not up to date so you will not be able to play on YOG or against others using the latest version.
Fedora
- Globulation 2 is now in Fedora repository.
- Type
yum install glob2
as root to install it.
Gentoo GNU/Linux
- An ebuild exists, and is in portage. To install, just execute (as root):
emerge glob2
- Make sure you are in the games group
Arch Linux
- A package exists in the community repository. To install, execute (as root):
pacman -S glob2
- Make sure the community repository is enabled in pacman.conf
Source Mage GNU/Linux
- A spell exists. Make sure that games grimoire is up-to-date, then execute (as root):
cast glob2
Mandriva Linux
- Please download the latest rpm package from the download section above, and install it as you would install any other rpm:
- Double click it to start the installation. When prompted, enter your root password. It will do the rest.
- When it says installation is complete, click "Ok". Go to the menu and click "Run Command".
- When the command box pops up, type "glob2" and it should load automatically.
Microsoft Windows
- Download the latest runtime package and unzip it anywhere.
- Open the folder glob2_runtime and double click glob2.exe
- to uninstall, just remove the directory "glob2_runtime" where you extracted the .zip.
Mac OS X
- Download Globulation-0.9.1.dmg (Intel, 10.5 required)
(Can also use MacPorts to install glob2 on older systems/architectures: sudo port install glob2)
- To install, mount the disk image (may have been automatically decompressed if you are using Safari) and copy the Globulation application to a location of your choice.
FreeBSD
- A port exists and binary packages are built for different platforms.
- See FreeBSD port.
Compile from Sources
| Compiling on Windows: The instructions below will not work for Windows. To compile on that OS, please see the Mingw compilation guide, which explains how to compile globulation2 on windows using mingw.
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Source Distribution
- Get the source distribution archive from the download section above.
- Extract the archive using a compression/extraction utility such as tar.
- Go in the extracted archive. If you have a Unix system (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X):
- Run the 'scons' script to compile the game (it will check dependencies, install any you have missing)
- If you want to install the game in a special place, instead of 'scons', type:
scons BINDIR="/path/to/install/bin" INSTALLDIR="/path/to/install/share"
- Install with a simple 'scons install' command (will install to the location you might have entered when compiling (BINDIR and INSTALLDIR)).
- Run the game by typing 'glob2'. If it doesn't work, type '/path/to/install/bin/glob2' instead.
- Note: in some Linux distributions (eg: Archlinux), scons complains about not finding -lboost_thread (with boost already installed). A solution is to modify the SConstruct file to look for boost_thread-mt instead of boost_thread, and the modify the LIBS variable with boost_thread-mt, to link against this library. If you have root access you can create a symlink libboost_thread.so instead.
| Warning: Mercurial is occasionally unstable and will break, it is meant for testing purposes.
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- Download the source code from the Mercurial by typing
- hg clone http://hg.globulation2.org/glob2/
- hg clone -r default glob2 glob2-work
- You can update the source code you have any time with a simple
cd glob2
hg pull
cd ../glob2-work
hg pull -r default ../glob2
hg update -C tip
- Read the README.hg and README files.
- Continue by following the source distribution instructions from the 3rd step onwards.
