Games: Netrun: Installation

Installation instructions.

Required software
Get the tarball
Unpack and compile

Required software

A relatively modest selection of software, common to most Linux distributions and many Unices, is probably required to install Netrun. Preferably versions without any wierd quirks - the C is reasonably vanilla, but the make is GNU automake and the library is GNU libc which will probably cause problems on many platforms.

Make.
tar and gzip.
A C compiler.
GNU m4 (for the configure script).
A curses library and the development headers.
Libc or replacement.

Go to the links section if some of these prove hard to find. Sorry, there aren't any Linux distro packages (i.e, RPMs), binary tarballs or DoS ports yet.

One quick note: Netrun is currently being developed with ncurses version 4. Apparently this was based off a draft version of the curses specification - ncurses version 5 is based off the final version of that specification, which means that Netrun may see some API compatibility problems in the future.
Keep the old libraries in place 'till I upgrade to Debian 2.2. :)

Get the tarball

Get the current tarball from the appropriate sections. Alternately, if you feel up to a development version, you can get access to Netrun's CVS tree.

Unpack and compile

I'm sure many of us know the drill by now. Unarchive the tarball (`tar -xzf netrun-[insert version here].tar.gz'). Change into the directory this produces, then `configure; make'.

This should produce an executable named 'netrun'. Run it - preferably inside a debugger. Please play it a bit, strain it's limits, then file a decent bug report, preferably with patches. ;)

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