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Install Red Eclipse Game in Ubuntu Linux

Red Eclipse is a free and open-source first person shooter video game that is based on the Cube 2 Engine (another very famous open-source game which is available for Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, etc). Anyhow, Red Eclipse is not just a single player (you know shooting at your PC :P) game but you can play it in the multilayer mode as well.


Being open-source it uses the OpenGL API for creating cool 3D effects and it has a reputation of being fast as well. Although in the official game page, well you won't find much there but if you want to know more about the game before playing... then you could start first by reading this Red Eclipse forum where you'd find thousands of open-source game geeks :).

Anyhow, if you use Ubuntu then you can easily install Red Eclipse using a PPA channel. So as usual, open your Terminal and SPAM the heck out of it by entering the below command :P.
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:itachi-sama-amaterasu/redeclipse-client
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install redeclipse

Update:- (2011/06/02)

The  above PPA won't work in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, so if you use Natty, then you should be able to install Redeclipse by using the below command.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arand/redeclipse

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install redeclipse

Here's the "proof" :P...
Guys, I haven't installed this because my Internet connection has a usage limit/cap, and it certainly can't handle 504MB of file size :o... so, can anyone confirm if this installs and works without any issues in Natty?

(thanks "Mattia", in the comment section for reporting this first)


You can have a look at the below video I found while browsing YouTube.

7 comments:

  1. Mattia MiglioriniJune 2, 2011 at 6:07 PM

    It doesn't work for me. I don't have problems with the repository, but when I try to install the package, apt doesn't find it.

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  2. GayanJune 2, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Hi Mattia,

    Actually this PPA won't work on Unity/11.04 it seems. So if that's your OS version, then please use the below PPA. I haven't installed it, but apt-get certainly asked for my conformation.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arand/redeclipse

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install redeclipse


    I've updated the post as well :)

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  3. AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 7:09 AM

    The ppa commands do not work on ubuntu 10.04 lts lucid lynx, it is really annoying

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  4. GayanJune 18, 2011 at 7:35 AM

    @Anonymous,

    Thank you for the conformation... sorry about that :/.

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  5. AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    found out it does work just wrong version, its a unreleased version in which is not out yet. Meaning it does not work correctly, you can only play on the developers servers which are password protected. the live support crashes the game aswell.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:19 AM

    After that, how do you run red eclipse?

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  7. GayanJuly 31, 2011 at 7:17 AM

    @Anonymous,

    Try putting the below command in your terminal window...

    redeclipse

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