Install Battle For Wesnoth Game In Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source game, available under the GPL license in source form and for a variety of computer operating systems. The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy video game with a fantasy settings. In Wesnoth, the player attempts to build a powerful army by controlling villages and defeating enemies for experience. White based Wesnoth loosely on the Sega Genesis games Master of Monsters and Warsong.

• Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
• Over two hundred unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
• Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
• Several multiplayer options available, including Internet play.
• Scores of different custom-designed map and unlimited random maps.
• Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download through a simple in-game procedure.
• Fog of War feature available for a true test of generalship.
• Sophisticated markup language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions, or campaigns.
• Excellent language support — 35 different languages currently available.
• Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, RISC OS, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2, and eComStation.

Install Battle for Wesnoth On Ubuntu / Linux Mint

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
13.10 (Saucy)     1.10
13.04 (Raring)    1.10
12.10 (Quantal)  1.10
12.04 (Precise)    1.10

Open a Terminal and simply install the game by:

sudo apt-get install wesnoth

Or Compiling the game from source:

If you choose to build Wesnoth from source you should add the datadir flag to configure to ensure your installation puts the data in the same place as the official installation path:

cd /usr/src
tar -xvjf wesnoth-1.x.x.tar.bz2
cd wesnoth-1.x.x
./configure --datadir=/usr/share/games ...
make
sudo make install