Parent: Games

Cube is a free open-source First Person Shooter (FPS).

Download

You can download it from the Cube webpage.

Installation

Untar it with the following command

tar -xvvf cube_YYYY_MM_DD_unix.tar.gz

(e.g - tar xvvf cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz).

Start Cube

First, get in to the directory which was created when you untarred Cube (by default this is called cube).

cd cube/

Now, you can start the game with the following command.

./cube_unix

If the script wont run, you may need to chmod it first.

sudo chmod a+x cube_unix

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

$ tar xvjf sauerbraten_2013_02_03_collect_edition_linux.tar.bz2
$ cd sauerbraten
$ bin_unix/linux_client 

Configuration

You can make more changes in the configuration file autoexec.cfg, which is in the cube directory.

Troubleshooting

If you get the following error messages:

./linux_client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you have to install the missing library: sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2

or

./linux_client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you have to install the missing library: sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2

or

./linux_client: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you have to install the missing library: sudo apt-get install libstdc++5-3.3-dev

could not load texture packages/textures/notexture.png
could not find core textures

When run from inside the 'bin' directory, it cannot find the game data. $ bin_unix/linux_client

Credits: UbuntuUsers.de


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Cube (last edited 2015-03-26 01:37:57 by c-73-186-245-102)