(64bit supported)
Tested: Ubuntu 7.10 64bit - Gnome


Stargus is a Starcraft Mod that allows you to play Starcraft with the Stratagus engine, as opposed to play it with the original Starcraft one. So unless you have a legal copy of Starcraft, Stargus will be pretty useless to you, since it doesn't come with any graphics or sounds itself.

So why play Starcraft with the Stratagus engine instead of the original Starcraft one? There are numerous reasons. It allows you to play Starcraft under Linux and other operating systems not supported by the original Starcraft engine. Also the Stratagus engine allows you to tweak numerous parameters so you can play around with different unit strength and such.

Since Stargus uses a different engine, the game will not be an exact replica of the original Starcraft. If you want the original unchanged Starcraft experience, you will still have to run the original game.

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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 Stargus;

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion autogen automake 
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libpng12-dev libbz2-dev libvorbis-dev libmikmod2-dev liblualib50-dev liblua50-dev libsdl1.2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev

Next the installation of Strategus engine;

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.Games/Stratagus
cd ~/Desktop
svn co https://stratagus.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stratagus/stratagus/trunk stratagus
cd stratagus
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-opengl 
make
mv * ~/.Games/Stratagus

Done.

Installation of Stargus. Please insert your Starcraft CD to your CD/DVD-rom.

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.Games/Stargus
cd ~/Desktop
svn co https://stargus.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stargus/stargus stargus
cd stargus
make
./startool /media/cdrom0 data.sg
cp -r scripts data.sg
cp contrib/fog.png data.sg/graphics/tilesets
mv * ~/.Games/Stargus

Done.

Download the stargus.png to your Desktop.

Code:

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

add the following;

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


Code:

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

Go to Games and make a new entry;

You can now launch from Applications —> Games —> Stargus


Enjoy!

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