I downloaded it but I notice the installer is an ELF executable. This is sort of a Windows-style way to distribute an application. If I run it, I have no idea where it will put files on my system. I'm not too comfortable with that, why not distribute a deb that will allow my system's package manager to let me uninstall it easily?
(Or next best thing, just a tarball that unzips to a predictable location and runs from there.)
As it stands, if I want to be careful I'd have to create a low-priviledge user with
There is a deb on playdeb.net for an older release.. perhaps bug the guys over there to update it to 3.3.6. Sorry, as the build miester for Mega-Glest (MG) I don't have tones of Linux experience so making native packages for every distro is a bit of a challenge.
Have you seen the OpenSUSE Build Service [opensuse.org]? That can automatically build native packages for several distros (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu (if you don't depend on anything in Universe)), and already has plenty of games [opensuse.org], and isn't too hard to set up when you can copy from existing examples. (I've been trying to use it for 0 A.D. and it seems okay so far.)
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Bothered by executable installer, give me a deb! (Score:3, Informative)
I downloaded it but I notice the installer is an ELF executable. This is sort of a Windows-style way to distribute an application. If I run it, I have no idea where it will put files on my system. I'm not too comfortable with that, why not distribute a deb that will allow my system's package manager to let me uninstall it easily?
(Or next best thing, just a tarball that unzips to a predictable location and runs from there.)
As it stands, if I want to be careful I'd have to create a low-priviledge user with
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