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Title: Better Documentation for Ubuntu Installation needed
Post by: sectopod on February 19, 2017, 10:59:56 pm
I run Ubuntu 14.04.
I was able to install OXC by following the installation instructions given on

https://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/

which are these (2017-02-19):

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# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:knapsu/openxcom
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install openxcom

But it took me 30 min more to find the directory where i have to put the original assets into. I found it to be 

/usr/share/openxcom/data

I think it would be helpful to include that installation step and this folder into the installation instructions.

And btw the version text on https://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/ reads
Current Milestone: 1.0 ยท June 13, 2014
which imo is a bit bewildering because of the 2.5 years old date. Maybe remove the date and just leave the milestone?

greetings from mars
Title: Re: Better Documentation for Ubuntu Installation needed
Post by: scyt4l3 on February 21, 2017, 02:06:52 am
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Installing_(OpenXcom) (https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Installing_(OpenXcom))

https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom#linux (https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom#linux)

Title: Re: Better Documentation for Ubuntu Installation needed
Post by: sectopod on February 22, 2017, 09:20:26 am
Yes, thank you. I was pointed towards those resources.  :)
Title: Re: Better Documentation for Ubuntu Installation needed
Post by: beng on June 13, 2023, 04:02:12 pm
I am running Linux Mint 21.1 which is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a 64 bit PC.

What I found works for me is: