This is a rebuild of the (westwood) red alert game engine (based on FreeCNC). It is a real time strategy game. To play the game with this engine you need the original game (mix files). The only game supported is red alert 1.

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

Next installing the -devs, headers and tools for FreeRa.

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential subversion scons
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev

Done.

mkdir -p ~/.Games/FreeRa
cd ~/Desktop
svn co https://freera.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freera/freera++/trunk freera++
cd freera++
scons

Copy redalert.mix and main.mix to freera++/data/mix from your red alert CD.

Then;

Code:

mv * ~/.Games/FreeRa

Done.

Download freera.png to your Desktop.

cd ~/Desktop
mv freera.png ~/.Games/FreeRa
nano ~/.Games/FreeRa-launch.sh

Add the following;

Save [ctrl] + [o] and exit [ctrl] + [x].


Code:

chmod +x ~/.Games/FreeRa-launch.sh
alacarte

Go to the Game section in Alacarte and push the New Item button. Fill in;

You can now launch from Glest by Applications tab —> Games —> FreeRa

Enjoy!