Vega Strike is an OpenSource 3d Space Simulator. Work is proceeding on both the Vega Strike game engine and a Vega Strike Universe game data set.
As you play, you will see that several species and numerous political entities are present in the game, and they do not all co-exist peacefully. With the invasion of the Union of Dispossessed Colonists,a lesser political entity, the brink of war has been reached between the human dominated Confederation of Inhabited Worlds and the Aeran Ascendancy even as the border between the Rlaan Assembly and the Aera still smolders under a long, tense cease-fire that has failed to become a peace.

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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 Vega Strike;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential subversion automake autoconf flex bison libtool pkg-config
sudo aptitude install bcp libgtk2.0-dev zlib1g-dev python2.5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev freeglut3-dev libexpat1-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev libcegui-mk2-dev ftgl-dev zlib1g-dev libzzip-dev libxt-dev libxaw7-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libfreeimage-dev libxft-dev libois-dev libcegui-mk2-dev libgtkmm2.0-dev libglademm-2.4-dev

Next you need to install these libs; (if you already installed them from through other guides this is not needed)

Next thing is to install these libs


CG Program manager

Download CG Program Manager to your Desktop;

Download


Code:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager_1.4.4-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb

OGRE

The latest stable version of OGRE needs to be build and install as well.
If you don't have a nvidia card remove –with-platform=GLX from ./configure.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ogre/ogre-linux_osx-v1-4-6.tar.bz2
tar jxfv ogre-linux_osx-v1-4-6.tar.bz2
cd ogrenew
./configure --with-platform=GLX --prefix=/usr 
make
sudo make install

Compiling Vega Strike

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir ~/.Games
mkdir VegaStrike
cd VegaStrike
svn co https://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vegastrike/trunk/vegastrike vegastrike
svn co https://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vegastrike/trunk/data4.x data4.x
cd vegastrike
./bootstrap-sh
./configure
make
cd ../data4.x
ln -s ../vegastrike/vegastrike
ln -s ../vegastrike/soundserver
ln -s ../vegastrike/vssetup
cd ..

To launch Vega Strike easely there needs to be made some launchers. Two of them. One to launch Vega Strike and one for the setup.

Code:

nano LaunchVegaStrike.sh

Add the following;

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

Code:

chmod +x LaunchVegaStrike.sh
nano LaunchVS-Setup.sh

Add the following;

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

Code:

chmod +x LaunchVS-Setup.sh
cd ..
mv VegaStrike ~/.Games
alacarte

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

Make a new Item afterwards;

Bravado! Vega Strike is now build and install and have two easy access launcher the menu.


Enjoy

Written and Published by Artificial Intelligence