Installing
If you do not already have a copy of Warzone, download it now:
System requirements
Warzone officially supports Windows XP or newer, Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, or a reasonably recent distro of Linux or BSD. Warzone may work on other operating systems, but we cannot say for sure.
Windows
To install Warzone 2100 on Windows, download the installer, run it, and click "Next" a bunch of times.
(You don't even need to click "I agree" anywhere - that's the beauty of open source.)
Mac OS X
Download the DMG from the download page, mount it, and drag the app to /Applications/.
Linux
On most distributions of Linux, Warzone should be available in your repositories. However, these are often outdated, and you are encouraged to compile Warzone yourself, which is the usual.
If you're new to installing from source on Linux, "the usual" refers to the process of downloading the tarball (from the download page), extracting it, opening the Terminal, cd-ing to the extracted directory, and running:
./configure && make
For more detailed information, or if the above fails, see the Linux Compile Guide.
Other OSes
Refer to the Compile Guide.
Running
Windows
On Windows, simply double-click the icon on your desktop. The game will run. To run the game with the included mods, go to "Start » Programs » Warzone 2100" and pick a mod.
Mac OS X
Double-click on the "Warzone" icon in /Applications/ (or use Spotlight, or drag it onto the Dock for easy access).
Notes:
- If you're on 10.4, you need X11 installed. X11 can be found on the install DVD.
- If you have a Nvidia-based Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.5-1.5.9, there is an Apple/Nvidia driver bug that doesn't allow textures to be shown. To fix it, please upgrade to OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Linux
This really depends on your distribution and/or desktop environment, but it should be wherever you installed it to.
Uninstalling
Windows
Either use "Start » Programs » Warzone 2100 » Uninstall" or Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Mac OS X
Drag the Warzone icon in /Applications/ to Trash.
Linux
It really depends on how you installed it. Package manager? Use the package manager to uninstall it. Compiled it from source? Just delete the source directory.
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Commentary
watermy wrote on Mar 7, 2011:
Linux link for installation is dead :
Instead use :
http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/CompileGuideLinux
For linux installation, before compiling you should get all dependencies with this package :
sudo apt-get build-dep warzone2100
Anonymous wrote on Mar 7:
hi second comment! :P
Anonymous wrote on May 19:
i have ubuntu 10.10 and am installing as directed above all seems to be going fine
installing wz 3.1 beta 10 just to see if it has more awesomenes than 2.3
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