Somebody should make a campaign where you play as the Soviets and destroy NATO. :)
I fucking love the FOSS community.
I think learning from these guys what it actually means to own something was likely the gateway that got me interested in the same values that opened me up to communism.
I loved CnC Generals (of course I played as China), hope this will ported to debian-like systems.
On my MX Linux, package not found; maybe the command works on Ubuntu or it needs some repositories to enable first.
You can go the snap route too, if you’re into that:
https://snapcraft.io/install/openra/debian
Enable snapd
On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install core
Install OpenRA
To install OpenRA, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install openra
I don’t think you have to wait - there are AppImages, Flatpaks, and even Deb’s for Ubuntu available. Surely one of those will work on your Debian system?
I was obsessed with Red Alert 2 and went out and bought CnC Generals the day it came out, came home excited to play and my cheap ass family computer couldn’t run it and I never got to play it.
Sorry to hear that, I can recommend Generals wholeheartedly. But you probably need Windows 7 to run it, unfortunately.
@ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net You can install GenPatcher on Windows to give Generals a more modern experience similar to the spirit of OpenRA, but it seems people are having difficulty running Generals with GenPatcher through wine/proton on Linux. You would probably need to virtualize Windows and run the game that way. If you want to run Generals alone, Lutris should have some scripts.
I’m not sure if any of these links will work for you:
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru_202103
- https://archive.org/details/EA_Command_And_Conquer_Generals_Deluxe_Edition_w_Zero_Hour_Expansion_Windows_200
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru
- https://archive.org/details/CommandConquerGeneralsUSA
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-incl-zero-hour-win-repack-en.-ru_202109
- https://archive.org/details/generalscd-2-pc
- https://archive.org/details/c-cgenzhcd-2-pc
- https://archive.org/details/Nova_CandCGeneralsUSA
- https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-generals-zero-hour-2003-ea-games-2-cd-set
To look for more, you can go here.
I like to play as GLA, they have such a great postal service. Also the GLA has the best faction soundtrack
Not sure about Debian, but it’s the openra package on Arch Linux
Edit: They have instructions for all the different distros at https://openra.net/download/
foss makes me hopeful for the future of computing, i literally just put a single command on the terminal and i can already play it.
