[http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ Nexuiz] is a first person online shooter fully licensed under the GPL.
The simplest method of installation is to install from the Ubuntu repositories. However, to get the most up-to-date version, use the alternative installation method.
Installation from Ubuntu repositories
In Ubuntu 6.06, enable the Dapper-Backports repository. (see UbuntuBackports)
In Ubuntu 6.10, enable the Universe repository.
Update your sources.list:
sudo aptitude update
Install Nexuiz with the following command:
sudo aptitude install nexuiz
To install the music tracks, instead use:
sudo aptitude install nexuiz nexuiz-music
To run, click Applications>Games>Nexuiz or start from the command-line with:
nexuiz
Alternative install of updated version
First, check that all of the required libraries are installed:
sudo aptitude install libc6 libcurl3 libsdl1.2debian libvorbisfile3
Now download the Nexuiz zip file for the latest version from one of the mirrors on the [http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=downloads Nexuiz website]. Unzip the folder wherever you wish to install it (This version is packaged to work on Windows Linux and Mac - thats right! All of them!). You may wish to unzip it to a place where any other OSes are able to access it (a shared partition), so that you can run the same copy from other OSes.
Open the unzipped folder and run the "nexuiz-linux-686-sdl" binary or the "nexuiz-linux-686-glx" binary (each use a different method of accessing your hardware).
You can run these binaries either by clicking on them in Nautilus (or equivalent), or by navigating to the correct folder in terminal, and then typing:
./nexuiz-linux-686-sdl
or
./nexuiz-linux-686-glx
This gives you a more up to date version than the one supplied in the Ubuntu package (currently version 2.2.3 compared with version 2.0). The package also contains scripts and binaries for placing a shortcut to the application on the desktop, and for setting up a dedicated Nexuiz server.
Notes
Nexuiz is a graphically demanding game and requires Direct Rendering to be enabled. (see ["Video"])
Nexuiz is supported by [http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/index.shtml XQF], the Unix/X11 server browser.
All versions from 2.0 up are compatible with one another.