Using backported Tremulous client?
Wed, 2007-10-10 16:54
It's been recommended to me by Khalsa to use a backported Tremulous client instead of the official one in this gamefest. The reasons are many bug fixes and an HTTP autodownload feature for maps that aren't installed by default.
The installation of this client would involve simply installing the official Tremulous from the available repository, as we normally would, but replace the binary file with the backported one from http://trem.tjw.org/backport/ or for 64bit systems from http://www.trem-servers.com/index.php?page=downloads
What do you think?
Awesome. Just awesome. This just goes to show the power of open-sourced projects.
Rather than replace, I'd put it in the same directory and call it tremulous-backport.
Indeed Spyro_boy.
I just tried it out too. When installed from an Ubuntu repository, to get the tremulous backport working it has to be put in /usr/lib/tremulous/ either by replacing the binary that is there or adding the new one, as you said, as "tremulous-backport".
Then in /usr/games/tremulous file change the binary path value to tremulous-backport if the original one wasn't replaced. The process can be done by this command:
For 64bit dual core systems:
wget http://dl.trem-servers.com/tremulous-t971-smp.x86_64 && sudo mv /usr/lib/tremulous/tremulous /usr/lib/tremulous/tremulous-backup && sudo mv tremulous-t971-smp.x86_64 /usr/lib/tremulous/tremulousThis also makes a backup of the old tremulous binary to /usr/lib/tremulous/tremulous-backup
Change the download link accordingly. All links are here: http://www.trem-servers.com/index.php?page=downloads#client
64bit multi core: http://dl.trem-servers.com/tremulous-t971-smp.x86_64
64bit single core: http://dl.trem-servers.com/tremulous-t971.x86_64
32bit multi core: http://dl.trem-servers.com/tremulous-t971-smp.x86
32bit single core: http://dl.trem-servers.com/tremulous-t971.x86
Well that might help some Ubuntu users looking to do it quickly.
Cheers