The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.

Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir… step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost… vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage… guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.

200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.

If you don't want to compile source codes, check Synaptic package manager for wesnoth 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 correctly set.

Download the relevant libs that is needed to compile, install and run Battle for Wesnoth;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential checkinstall
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev gettext

Done.

Download the lateste (or prefered) version of Battle for Wesnoth to your Desktop;

Download

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar jxfv wesnoth-1.3.7.tar.bz2
cd wesnoth-1.3.7
./configure --enable-editor
make
sudo checkinstall

Note: You might want to run ./configure –help before running ./configure –enable-editor to see if you want to make some changes to the configuration.

Enjoy!