installation

[General]

Hi! General here!
I'm trying to install 2.3.9 and I'm stuck/confused/unable/to stupid to know how. I am running Ubuntu 11.10. I tried taking a look at the linux compile guide provided by wz project but i didn't understand it. i downloaded and extracted the tar.gz file and couldnt get past that. I tried looking around inside it for a deb file i could click or something but i was unable to find one. Any help is appreciated, thank you! and if you reply with instructions please assume i am a complete noob at this stuff and please be very specific (I'm also hopeless with the terminal so if there's any of that make sure its something I can just copy/paste in) Thank you so much in advance for putting up with my noob-ness lol

[NoQ]

but i didn't understand it

Anything specific? Cause all we can do is repeat what it says unless you ask anything specific.
All you need is to do is install necessary -dev packages (sudo apt-get build-dep warzone2100), cd to the directory you unpacked the source into and do ./configure&&make, then you can start it as ./src/warzone2100. Pretty much as the guide says.

[Berg]

Like NoQ said we can only supply information on what you tell us so here is a place to look at the compile guide

http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/CompileGuideLinux

If you still have issues Post your console output or error log to so others can see what your system is doing

best regards Berg

[General]

cd to the directory you unpacked the source into and do ./configure&&make

If you could explain this part, that would be great, thank you. (mostly the "cd" and "./configure&&make" parts)

[General]

After a lot of thinking i decided that cd meant current directory (not sure id thats right even now lol) and after another little while i was able to figure out that i needed to replace the "." from "./configure&&make" with the extracted files directory and, once I got that, I was able to get going from there and now i can play wz 2.3.9 i was probably able to get it because it was much easier for me to look at what you said versus the huge brain overload known as the linux compile guide. (for me anyway lol) Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out! I found the executable file in the src file and put a link to it on my desktop so i can start it easier but i cant get to the game through the search thingy (square at top of launcher that you click to open a search window) and i want to add it to the launcher. Do you know how i can do that? (answer to this question is not necessary but would be appreciated, thanks )