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SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth is a RTS/FPS game developed by s2games that is available on both Linux and Windows. In this blog entry i will explain how to install the game using Ubuntu Linux (a Debian GNU/Linux deviant). I assume because Savage is no longer in development the game is free to those who know. The CD-Key servers no longer authorize, meaning once you have the game you can play. So, go ahead and download the game. Via terminal;

Note: The following will download the complete (315.4MB) game installation. Est: 1/2 hour on broadband.

wget http://downloads.s2games.com/online_orders/savage_linux.sh.gz

After the download has completed, extract savage_linux.sh.gz so you are left with the installation script, savage_linux.sh. With a terminal (Console) opened run the following command to start the installation;

gzip -d savage_linux.sh.gz

sh savage_linux.sh

This will verify the archive and uncompress all the binaries for you and then prompt a fancy GUI set-up wizard. The default will work perfectly and leave you with a desktop link and the game installed to ~/games/Savage.

Once completed DO NOT PLAY! The game will need to be updated, so go ahead and exit.

Note: The following will download Savage : patch 2.0b (73MB).

wget http://www.nofrag.com/fichiers/savage/patches/499/savage_patch_200b.tar.gz

wget http://ftp.wireplay.co.uk/pub/savage/patches/linux/savage_patch_200b.tar.gz

Note: The following will download Savage : patch 2.0c (1MB).

wget http://www.nofrag.com/fichiers/savage/patches/537/savage_patch_200b_to_200c.tar.gz

wget http://ftp.wireplay.co.uk/pub/savage/patches/linux/savage_patch_200b_to_200c.tar.gz

Next copy all your patches from your home directory (or were ever you downloaded) to ~/games/Savage. In terminal copy and extract (overwriting the existing files) like this for an example;

cp savage_patch* ~/games/Savage/

cd ~/games/Savage

tar xvzf savage_patch_200b.tar.gz

tar xvzf savage_patch_200b_to_200c.tar.gz

Those patchs will bring the game up to speed with the official releases. Unforutnally s2gamers quit on the savage development and never released a linux version of 2.00e. No problems, simply visit http://subsentient.com/savage/ and download (for linux) EX2. Again in terminal (still in ~/games/Savage);

wget http://subsentient.com/savage/EX2_5b.tar.gz

wget http://www.extremehitech.com/gobbler/EX2/EX2_5b.tar.gz

tar xvzf EX2_5b.tar.gz

Weee! Finally patched the whole way up to Savage v2.00e w/ functional in-game server browser and on line capability.

Next we fix the broken links to the void updater by editing the savage link right in your home directory.

cd ~

vi savage

Alter ./savage.bin to read ./silverback.bin $@

For example; #!/bin/sh
# Needed to make symlinks/shortcuts work.
# the binaries must run with correct working directory
cd /home/czar/games/Savage
#LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./savage.bin /home/czar/games/Savage
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./silverback.bin $@ /home/czar/games/Savage
exit 0

~Fin of the installation. Now to play simply run ~/savage. A note of warning, if you are running default ubuntu or kubuntu you will need to install some graphics drivers. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75074 for a General - HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

Revised 09/15/2006