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I loved CnC Generals (of course I played as China), hope this will ported to debian-like systems.
I was obsessed with Red Alert 2 and went out and bought CnC Generals the day it came out, came home excited to play and my cheap ass family computer couldn't run it and I never got to play it.
Sorry to hear that, I can recommend Generals wholeheartedly. But you probably need Windows 7 to run it, unfortunately.
@[email protected] You can install GenPatcher on Windows to give Generals a more modern experience similar to the spirit of OpenRA, but it seems people are having difficulty running Generals with GenPatcher through wine/proton on Linux. You would probably need to virtualize Windows and run the game that way. If you want to run Generals alone, Lutris should have some scripts.
I'm not sure if any of these links will work for you:
To look for more, you can go here.
Great resources, thank you Comrade!
Not sure about Debian, but it's the
openrapackage on Arch LinuxEdit: They have instructions for all the different distros at https://openra.net/download/
I prefer MX Linux to Arch, but anyway, thanks Comrade!
I like to play as GLA, they have such a great postal service. Also the GLA has the best faction soundtrack
That's right, they are nice to play, but do not have the best TANKS, as China :)
I don't think you have to wait - there are AppImages, Flatpaks, and even Deb's for Ubuntu available. Surely one of those will work on your Debian system?
Oh I will try when I get some spare time to enjoy the game, thank you.
apt install openra
On my MX Linux, package not found; maybe the command works on Ubuntu or it needs some repositories to enable first.
You can go the snap route too, if you're into that:
https://snapcraft.io/install/openra/debian
Enable snapd
Thank you Comrade!