AlephOne is an open-source descendent of Bungie's Marathon 2 first person 3D shooting game. Aleph One supports Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity data files (available below). A conversion of Marathon 1 called M1A1 and many third party scenarios and net maps are also available.

AlephOne features software and OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and much more.

This guide show you how to compile the latest version of Marathon. If you don't want to compile from the source, please check Synaptic package manager for Marathon or Getdeb if they have an up-to-date ubuntu package available.

Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.
Check if your sourcelist is fully enable (universe, multiverse and mediabuntu).

Next step is to download Compiling tools and the right libs to make Marathon work. To the terminal;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential checkinstall
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev bcp libsmpeg-dev libmad0-dev libsndfile1-dev libvorbis-dev libspeex-dev libasound2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev liblua50-dev lua50

Done.

Download Marathon Source Code to your Desktop;

AlephOne - Linux Download

To the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar jxfv AlephOne-20070819-nolibs.tar.bz2
cd AlephOne-20070819
./configure --enable-opengl --enable-mad --enable-sndfile --enable-vorbis --enable-lua
sudo checkinstall

Done.

Download the alephone.png to your Desktop.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo mv alephone.png  /usr/local/share/AlephOne
alacarte

Go to Games and make a new entry;

Done.

Marathon
Marathon 2: Durandal
Marathon Infinity