INSTALL

Installation Instructions
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1. Installing the game data
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Game root folder: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl
Game data: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/data
Missions: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/missions
Hires models: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/models
Hires textures: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/textures
Hires sounds: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/sounds2
Mods: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/mods

Configuration files: ~/.d2x-xl/config
Player profiles (pilots): ~/.d2x-xl/profiles
Save games: ~/.d2x-xl/savegames
Screenshots: ~/.d2x-xl/screenshots
Demos: ~/.d2x-xl/demos
Temporary files: ~/.d2x-xl/cache


2. Installing the program
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2.1. Required packages

You will need to have the following modules and their devel packages installed:

SDL
SDL_mixer
SDL_image
Mesa
OpenMotif
DirectFB

It is recommended to download the SDL and SDL_mixer source code from 
http://www.descent.de and to build and install SDL and SDL_mixer using these.
This is safe as it mainly fixes bugs in these libraries.


2.2. Building the program

To build D2X-XL on Linux cd to the source root folder and invoke the following
commands:

sh ./autogen.sh
chmod 0755 ./configure
./configure --enable-release=yes --enabled-debug=no
make


2.3 Updates

When updating the program, make sure to update the files from the latest D2X-XL
data release (d2x-xl-data-<version>.rar).