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How to Install Ancient Warfare Game 0 A.D. Alpha 19 in Ubuntu 16.04

To Install Ancient Warfare Game 0 A.D. Alpha 19 in Ubuntu 16.04

0 A.D. is historical Real Time Strategy game, which released with several ancient civilizations. It featured with both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. If there is no central server, players can connect to each other directly using their IP addresses. Installation of 0 A.D.Alpha 19 on Ubuntu 16.04 is explained in this article.

Features

  • New victory modes, “ Conquest Structures” and “ Conquest Units” .
  • Ceasefire game mode to make all players unable to attack their enemies at the start of a game.
  • The Ptolemaic lighthouse reveals the shore on the entire map.
  • Engine supports an eight times greater range of terrain heights.
  • New animals, new mastiff and wolfhound units have been added.

Additional features

  • New pathfinder
  • The generic Hellenic and Celtic factions is removed
  • SDL2 is now enabled by default
  • XML validation

Installation of Ancient Warfare Game 0 A.D

Add the required repository before installation of 0 A.D.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
 0 A.D. (pronounced " zero ey-dee" ) is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. The project is highly ambitious, involving state-of-the-art 3D graphics, detailed artwork, sound, and a flexible and powerful custom-built game engine.

This PPA contains the latest official point releases of 0 A.D. with packages for Precise, Trusty and Utopic!
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~wfg/+archive/ubuntu/0ad
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpxis9ce8b/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpxis9ce8b/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key E4FA953A from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpxis9ce8b/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E4FA953A: public key " Launchpad 0 A.D."  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Here update the repository to take effect for newly added.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wfg/0ad/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                  
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                 
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wfg/0ad/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [2,288 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wfg/0ad/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [2,280 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wfg/0ad/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,068 B]
Hit:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Fetched 23.2 kB in 5s (4,199 B/s)                     
Reading package lists... Done

Now start installing the 0 A.D. game with below command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install 0ad -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0 linux-headers-4.4.0-21 linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  0ad-data 0ad-data-common fonts-texgyre libenet7 libgloox13v5 libnvtt2 libopenal-data libopenal1 libsdl2-2.0-0
  libsndio6.1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 tex-common
Suggested packages:
  sndiod debhelper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  0ad 0ad-data 0ad-data-common fonts-texgyre libenet7 libgloox13v5 libnvtt2 libopenal-data libopenal1 libsdl2-2.0-0
  libsndio6.1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 tex-common
0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
Need to get 601 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,591 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 0ad-data all 0.0.20-1 [580 MB]
33% [1 0ad-data 247 MB/580 MB 43%]            
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Setting up fonts-texgyre (20150923-1)  . . . 
Setting up 0ad-data-common (0.0.20-1) . . .
Setting up libnet7:amd64 (1.3.12+ds-2) . . .
Setting uplibnvtt2:amd64 (1:1.16.0-3) . . .
Setting up libwgtk3.0-0v5:amd64 (3.0.2+dfsg1-1.3) . . .
Setting up 0ad (0.0.20-1) . . .
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) . . .

Type the game name in the search tab and click 0.A.D. icon to open.

Now start to play the game 0 A.D.

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FAQ
Q
Does Ancient Warfare Game provide XML validation?
A
Ancient Warfare Game do provide XML Validation.
Q
What functionalities are removed from Ancient Warfare Game?
A
in Ancient Warfare Game the generic Hellenic and Celtic factions are removed.
Q
What are the maps specified here in this Ancient Warfare Game?
A
Maps in Ancient Warfare Game has the property of Real world map realism: Random maps are based upon real geography of the ancient world with realistic plants, animals and terrain.
Q
Is it possible to install Ancient Warfare Game and use in ParrotOS ?
A
Ancient Warfare Game can be installed in ParrootOs, you can add repo in the sources list and install the package via apt-get update.
Q
Is this Ancient Warfare Game multilingual?
A
Ancient Warfare Game supports multiple languages.