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2.2 Getting the game

2.2.1 Download source

Liquid War 6 can be found on http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/liquidwar6/ and http://www.ufoot.org/download/liquidwar/v6/.

Downloading the latest file from this place, and compile it yourself on your computer with a classical ./configure && make && make install is the recommended way to install Liquid War 6.

2.2.2 Download binaries

Some binary packages might be available. Your mileage may vary.

GNU/Linux based systems are supported, through Debian .deb and Red Hat RPM packages. There is also a Microsoft Windows installer.

However these binaries are not necessarly available for every single version of the game.

2.2.3 Work in progress

Latest work in progress versions can be obtained with GIT. Here's the typicall command which will fetch the latest version:

     git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/liquidwar6.git

If you are behing a firewall and can't use the native GIT protocol, you can rely on the (slower) http protocol:

     git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/liquidwar6.git

The source can be browsed online on http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=liquidwar6.git and latest changes (commit log) can be followed on http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/liquidwar6.git/log/.

Alternatively, you can download daily snapshots on http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v6/snapshots/ These files should be built every day, but a make distcheck is done before creating them. So if the source code is, for some reason, broken, then they won't be generated. So this is a good source if you want the most up-to-date source which is not completely unstable.