Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Blood Frontier is an open-source first person shooter game based on the Cube Engine 2 (the game used by AssaultCube and AssaultCube Reloaded), playable in either single-player and multi-player.
The latest version available is Blood Frontier 0.8.5. Meanwhile, the project has been discontinued, but it still is installable on the latest Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.
In this article I will show you how to install Blood Frontier 0.8.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via the GetDeb repository, installing Blood Frontier 0.8.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the repository and the key to your system, update the local repository index and install the bloodfrontier package.
Follow the instructions for your system’s exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Blood Frontier 0.8.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.2 and other Ubuntu 14.04 derivative systems:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bloodfrontier
How to install Blood Frontier 0.8.5 on Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13, Elementary OS 0.2 and other Ubuntu 12.04 derivative systems:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bloodfrontier
Optional, to remove bloodfrontier from either Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 or a derivative system, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove bloodfrontier