Tux Racer Guide: How to install Tux Racer on Linux, instructions and tips.

Tux Racer Guide: Installing Tux Racer in Linux.

From Source.

1. Make sure you have (and have correctly installed) the following libraries:

   • An implementation of the OpenGL API version 1.1 or greater (Mesa versions >= 3.2 work; see http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net). Note that you will need a hardware-accelerated implementation of OpenGL in order for Tux Racer to be playable.
   • The GLUT library, version 3.7 beta or greater. This is distributed in the MesaDemos package, so if you have installed Mesa, you probably also have GLUT. Otherwise, see http://www.opengl.org.
   • Tcl Version 8.0 or greater.
   • (Optional) Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Version 1.1.1 or greater. This is required for joystick support.
   • (Optional) SDL_mixer Version 1.0 or greater. This is required for sound and music support.

2. Obtain the tuxracer-<version>.tar.gz and tuxracer-data-<version>.tar.gz files from the Downloads page.

3. Unpack the code tarball:

   shell$ tar xvfz tuxracer-<version>.tar.gz
   shell$ cd tuxracer-<version>

4. Configure for your system:

   shell$ ./configure <configure options>

   Many people will be able to run configure without passing any options. The more commonly-used configure options are:

   • --prefix=DIR: Specify where to install tuxracer. (The tuxracer binary will be placed in DIR/bin)
   • --with-tcl-libs=DIR: Specify Tcl library location
   • --with-tcl-inc=DIR: Specify Tcl header file location
   • --with-tcl-lib-name=NAME: Specify Tcl library base name
   • --with-gl-libs=DIR: Specify OpenGL library location
   • --with-gl-inc=DIR: Specify OpenGL header file location
   • --with-glut-libs=DIR: Specify GLUT library location
   • --with-glut-inc=DIR: Specify GLUT header file location
   • --enable-stencil-buffer: Use if your hardware has a stencil buffer
   • --with-data-dir=PATH: Location of tuxracer data directory (can be also configured in options file later)

   Run ./configure --help for a complete list of options.

5. Compile:

   shell$ make

   Tux Racer should compile cleanly, with few (if any) warnings. Please see the FAQ or our Support page if Tux Racer fails to compile.

6. Install the tuxracer binary:

   shell$ make install

   Unless you specified the --prefix option when you ran configure, this command will install the tuxracer binary in /usr/local/bin

7. Install the data files:

   shell$ cd /usr/local/share
   shell$ tar xvfz /path/to/tuxracer-data-<version>.tar.gz
   shell$ mv tuxracer-data-<version> tuxracer

   You may install the data files anywhere you wish, but tuxracer looks in /usr/local/share/tuxracer by default.

8. You're done!

From RPMs.

1. Obtain tuxracer-<version>.rpm and tuxracer-data-<version>.rpm from your distribution vendor (Sunspire Studios is not providing RPMs at this time).

2. As root, run:

   shell$ rpm -Uvh tuxracer-data-<version>.rpm
   shell$ rpm -Uvh tuxracer-<version>.rpm

3. You're done!

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