If you like Battle For Wesnoth game, you can now install it on Pear OS 8 easily. Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game for Linux. This quick tutorial will guide you to
install Battle for Wesnoth on Pear OS 8 and should be applicable as well on Ubuntu.
The game is very competitive, the user can choose from hundreds of different soldier types, like infantry, cavalry, archers, mages, et cetera and fight with friends or strangers, in multi-player mode.
This is how to install Battle for Wesnoth on Pear OS 8
Open Terminal and type
sudo apt-get install wesnoth
dhani@dhani-pearos8:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install wesnoth
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libboost-program-options1.49.0 libsdl-net1.2 ttf-dejavu wesnoth-1.10
wesnoth-1.10-aoi wesnoth-1.10-core wesnoth-1.10-data wesnoth-1.10-did
wesnoth-1.10-dm wesnoth-1.10-dw wesnoth-1.10-ei wesnoth-1.10-httt
wesnoth-1.10-l wesnoth-1.10-low wesnoth-1.10-music wesnoth-1.10-nr
wesnoth-1.10-sof wesnoth-1.10-sotbe wesnoth-1.10-thot wesnoth-1.10-trow
wesnoth-1.10-tsg wesnoth-1.10-ttb wesnoth-1.10-utbs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libboost-program-options1.49.0 libsdl-net1.2 ttf-dejavu wesnoth wesnoth-1.10
wesnoth-1.10-aoi wesnoth-1.10-core wesnoth-1.10-data wesnoth-1.10-did
wesnoth-1.10-dm wesnoth-1.10-dw wesnoth-1.10-ei wesnoth-1.10-httt
wesnoth-1.10-l wesnoth-1.10-low wesnoth-1.10-music wesnoth-1.10-nr
wesnoth-1.10-sof wesnoth-1.10-sotbe wesnoth-1.10-thot wesnoth-1.10-trow
wesnoth-1.10-tsg wesnoth-1.10-ttb wesnoth-1.10-utbs
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