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Not all distributions carry the latest stable or development releases. If you want to make sure you are running the newest official version of Wesnoth from either branch, either get the sources from the Download page and compile them yourself or use the nightly flatpak below.
Flatpak
A nightly flatpak of Wesnoth's development branch is available. Instructions for getting it can be found here.
A flatpak of the current stable release(1.14) is also available here.
Arch Linux
- The latest stable version can be installed from the [community] repository:
pacman -S wesnoth - There's a wesnoth-devel package for development releases in the AUR.
Debian
- Official packages including the development releases. If you want a different version, you need to explicitly request which branch you want, e.g. 1.12 (stretch), or 1.14 (buster, bullseye, and sid)
- backports.debian.org offers the latest stable wesnoth releases, albeit only backported to stretch at this time. For more info on Debian backports, click here.
Command-line install
To install Wesnoth, run the following to pull in everything:
aptitude install wesnoth wesnoth-music
Compiling
If you want to run a newer release than the ones provided in the Debian repositories, or an unreleased version from the Git repository, you will have to build it from source. See Compiling Wesnoth for more details.
To install Wesnoth's dependencies if you have Debian's source repositories enabled in your config, you can just use apt's build-dep command with the package that best matches the version you are trying to build:
# Stable version aptitude build-dep wesnoth # Development version aptitude build-dep wesnoth-1.14
Note: If you have already installed an older version of Wesnoth, you should uninstall it first by running:
# Stable version aptitude purge wesnoth # Development version aptitude purge wesnoth-1.14
Bear in mind that this will not remove downloaded data or saved games stored in your home directory.
Additionally, build-dep will not install libssl-dev automatically due to a Debian patch to use WolfSSL instead due to a licence incompatibility with OpenSSL, so you will need to install that manually. This will likely be resolved within the next couple of years once OpenSSL 3 comes into use since that version will resolve the license incompatibility.
Ubuntu
Click here to install the latest version of the wesnoth packaged for your release. Alternatively, search for "wesnoth" in the Ubuntu Software Center or use following command:
sudo apt-get install wesnoth
Available Versions
Different releases of Ubuntu provide different versions of Wesnoth in their repositories. Often, this version will be older than the most current Wesnoth.
| Release | Packaged Version |
|---|---|
| 20.04 LTS (Focal) | 1.14.9 |
| 19.10 (Eoan) | 1.14.7 |
| 19.04 (Disco) | 1.14.6 |
| 18.10 (Cosmic) | 1.14.4 |
| 18.04 LTS (Bionic) | 1.12.6 |
| 16.04 LTS (Xenial) | 1.12.5 |
Fedora
Battle for Wesnoth is included in Fedora. The current version of Battle for Wesnoth is available for ARMv7HL, AArch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86, and x86_64 architectures. If you have problems with these packages, or other questions, please contact the Fedora maintainer Kalev Lember.
To install from command-line, simply run:
dnf install wesnoth wesnoth-tools wesnoth-server
Gentoo
To install the game only, run the following as root:
emerge wesnoth
To install the game and the server, add 'server' to your USE flags, then run emerge as above.
Note: Gentoo currently operates as a rolling-release, updated approximately weekly.
To install the latest unstable version (when available), add the following line to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file before running the emerge command:
games-strategy/wesnoth ~*
The ebuild is currently maintained by the Gentoo Games Project
Mageia / Rosa Linux / OpenMandriva Lx
To install the latest stable version (as root):
urpmi wesnoth
For the development version (Rosa Linux and OpenMandriva Lx only, as root):
urpmi wesnoth-unstable
You can also use the GUI package manager RPMDrake (in the Control Centre).
To install latest Battle for Wesnoth version available you need to enable the following repository using the Control Centre:
| Distribution | Repository for wesnoth | Repository for wesnoth-unstable |
|---|---|---|
| Rosa Linux Desktop / OpenMandriva Lx | contrib release | contrib updates |
| Rosa Linux LTS | contrib updates | contrib updates |
| Mageia | core release | N/A |
openSUSE
These are builds of The Battle For Wesnoth for several versions of openSUSE, made for both i386 and x86_64 architectures.
The openSUSE packages are maintained by multiple contributors.
Install using One-Click Installation
Use the correct link for your version of openSUSE:
- openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) One-Click Install
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (fixed release) One-Click Install
Void Linux
Void Linux is another rolling release distribution, utilizing its own package manager. The current version is available for x86, x86_64, armv6, and armv7.
To install simply run:
xbps-install -S wesnoth
The build is currently maintained by Phillip Hirsch