Why do you make it so hard for GNU/Linux users?

[Ters]

Why do not change to Artistic 2.0?

If I remember what prissi once wrote correctly, because they changed the terms which were the reason Simutrans chose the license in the first place. Since those terms is what Simutrans went open source under, relicensing will likely require consent of all developers, past and present. Considering one of them has at times accused Simutrans of being theft as it is, I consider this as "not going to happen".

[McAlpine RailCo.]

I've made current .debs for the base game as well as pak64 (both 112.3) and pak128 (2.3.0), based on Ansgar Burchardt's Debian packages for 111.3.1.


Ready-to-use .debs for all apt-based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) for AMD64 architecture:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7xndwehrlbt60s7/9fWcQaMTii


Download them, open a console in the folder where they are and run

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sudo dpkg -i simutrans*.deb
Depending on your system, executing the .deb files from your graphical file browser (Nautilus, Dolphin etc) might work too.



Sources for building the .debs yourself (requires somewhat advanced GNU/Linux knowledge, and the debian build tools installed)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6kr2nrfkqj904a1/Sk5-prmqu7


You need to download the respective original simutrans/pak sources from svn into a directory that conforms to debian standards (<packagename>-<version>), archive the unmodified directory to <packagename>_<version>-<debversion>.orig.tar.xz (mind the underscore), unpack the according .debian.tar.xz archive in the directory (should result in a debian/ directory) and then run dpkg-buildpackage. You can use the .dsc files to check whether the .orig and the .debian archives are the same I used.


I have mailed Ansgar Burchardt about it; perhaps he will integrate the new versions into the Debian archives. Until then, it might be an idea to post the .debs on sourceforge.


EDIT: Scenarios are broken. Probably a result of Debian insisting on installing executables into a different directory than data files which conflicts with Simutrans' "everything in one directory" approach. I won't be around to fix this until Easter though.