Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

Please check Synaptic package manager for Frets On Fire 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 enabled (universe, multiverse and mediabuntu).

Next step is to download the right libs to make Frets On Fire work. To the terminal;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0

Done.

Download Frets On Fire Full linux version to your Desktop;

Download

To the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir ~/.Games
tar zxfv FretsOnFire-1.2.451-linux.tar.gz -C ~/.Games

Done.

Next thing is to make a launcher for Frets On Fire;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
nano ~/.Games/FretsOnFire/Launch-FretsOnFire.sh

Add the following;

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

Code:

chmod +x ~/.Games/FretsOnFire/Launch-FretsOnFire.sh
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Go to Games and make a new entry;

Enjoy!

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