HowTo:Checkout SVN (Ubuntu Linux)

This is a newb friendly guide to help people who do not want to learn deep specifics and terms. Most of this guide will show you copy-paste lines to paste in Terminal, omitting most technical issues. However, you might want to take a look at what SVN is to have a general understanding of this version. If you follow steps correctly, VS should be able to run. If you have problems compiling in Ubuntu, post a new thread in the VS Forums (click here [1]). Someone will be able to help you. Note: This process was done in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid).

Tutorial to download, compile, setup and run Vega Strike

Installing SVN

The first step is to install Subversion. In Ubuntu (and Debian, I guess) it is easy to install Subversion just by using the Synaptic Package Manager. Goto System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager. In the quick search box, type "subversion" without quotation marks. Select the first option and mark for installation. Every step involving the command "svn", will be using subversion.

Downloading Vega Strike

First of all, you must understand some basic knowledge. The first thing to do is to download the most important modules, which are the basic structure of VS. Basically, this is the game. You must download these in order to play VS. The modules are the data and vegastrike modules.

• First create a directory where you would like your copy of the Vega Strike development version to live in. For tutorial purposes, we will create a directory called VegaStrike in our user's home-directory.

User@UserMachine:~$ mkdir VegaStrike

• Change into this newly created directory. In our case:

User@UserMachine:~$ cd VegaStrike

Note for newbs: The directory is case sensitive. If you type: cd vegastrike or Vegastrike, it won't find the directory. Also, do not copy and paste "User@UserMachine:~$".