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No Battle for Wesnoth? :(

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http://forums.opensuse.org – I was wondering that there is no package in 11.3 for installing the great game battle for wesnoth game? In the games repo there is only the games-data. Can anybody tell me where i can get these packages to install wesnoth on 11.3? (Distributions)

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Submitted by bolly on 07/19/2010 – Made popular on 07/19/2010

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Linux is not a platform built for games, but that doesn't mean that we can't have fun and that there aren't some amazing games available.

Probably one of the most famous games for the Linux platform is Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based strategy with a fantasy setting.

The game is quite stable and has been in development for years.

If you do a quick search about strategy games in Ubuntu 11.10‘s Software Center, then you may find a lot of strategy games to try but in this post I’ll introduce you with a turn-based tactical strategy game.

The Battle for Wesnoth, a free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat, is now at version 1.11.4.

The Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.4 is a bugfix release for the stable 1.11 series and it comes with some interesting changes.

Highlights of The Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.4:

• The new Lua AI persistent storage me

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/var/cache/apt/archives/wesnoth-1.8-data_1%3a1.8.6-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

tried the sudo apt get install -f - still not working get the same message. I tried to run the game, put the sudo apt-get upgrade -f but still no result. so please give me some advice and the name of the wesnoth package at least. thank you in advance.

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