Beyond the Red Line is a stand-alone total conversion for the award-winning Freespace 2 released by Volition and Interplay for the PC. It is based on the popular new tv-show Battlestar Galactica. No, not the one from the 70s.

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Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.

Libgtk1.2 is needed for Beyond the Red Line installation interface;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install libgtk1.2

Done.

Download Beyond the Red Line to your Desktop, thereafter open the terminal;

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Code:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo sh BtRLDemoInstaller.run

NOTE 1: Use the default settings that the installation window uses. Don't start mess with them, unless you know what you're doing!
NOTE 2: Don't start Beyond the Red Line from the installation window. The installation window is running under Admin rules and therefore will mess up the permission system of Beyond the Red Line if launched. Exit it when installation is complete.

Save beyondredline.png to your Desktop;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo mv beyondredline.png /usr/local/games/btrl_demo
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/btrl.desktop

add the following;

Save (ctrl)+(o) and Exit (ctrl)+(x)

You can now launch Beyond the Red Line from Applications —> Games —> Beyond the Red Line

Enjoy!