Debian Package

[beedee]

A binary package usable on all debian based systems (including Ubuntu) has finally been released.

Download it here: http://open-ra.org/releases/linux/download.php

Thanks to Iran for doing most of the hard parts for me.

Still to come for linux packages:

• Better changelog integration
• Freedesktop compliant menu entries/desktop icons
• Man pages

[Iran]

Nice! One problem is that the bold part in the description needs to be smaller (only a few words). 'apt-cache search openra' shows:

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maikel@computer-maikel:~$ apt-cache search openra
libopenraw-dev - free implementation for RAW decoding - development files
libopenraw1 - free implementation for RAW decoding
libopenraw1-dbg - debugging symbols for libopenraw
libopenrawgnome-dev - GNOME integration for libopenraw - development files
libopenrawgnome1 - free implementation for RAW decoding (GNOME integration)
libopenrawgnome1-dbg - debugging symbols for libopenrawgnome
rasmol-doc - Documentation for rasmol
openra - A multiplayer reimplementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert game engine in .NET/Mono, OpenGL, OpenAL and SDL. Has extensive modding support and includes Command & Conquer as an official mod.

The length of the description is quite unusually long. What problems are you having with the menu entries and desktop icons?

[beedee]

I was just using the description provided in the control file of the .deb you made. I'll fix it with the next release.

I'm not having a problem with the menu entries and the like, I just wanted to get the debian package working and distributed before moving on to that since I want it in all the linux packages.

[Iran]

Ah, nice to know. Yeah, I saw the problem only after testing apt-cache on the file. Sorry about that.

[luticus]

Noticed the Debian packaging seems to be missing. Any chance it might return? Really missing the debs.

[abcdefg30]

Sorry, we don't plan on releasing deb packages again; they were completely superseded by AppImages.

[Matt]

There are thirdparty created ones available at https://xtradeb.net/play/openra/