{"id":7765,"date":"2018-05-18T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2018-05-18T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:40:53","slug":"install-0-a-d-alpha-23-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/install-0-a-d-alpha-23-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install 0 A.D. alpha 23 in Ubuntu 18.04\/16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5463\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0ad_icon1.png\" alt=\"0 A.D. PPA\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new release of the free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare, <b>0 A.D. Alpha 23 &#8220;Ken Wood&#8221;<\/b>, was released a day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>New features in <a href=\"https:\/\/play0ad.com\/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-23-ken-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\">0 A.D. Alpha 23<\/a> according to the release note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Civilization:\u00a0<em>Kushites<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mod Downloader<\/li>\n<li>Cavalry and Spartan Building Models<\/li>\n<li>Combine Victory Conditions<\/li>\n<li>Attack Range Visualization<\/li>\n<li>Diplomacy Colors<\/li>\n<li>Destruction Damage<\/li>\n<li>Unit Information Dialog<\/li>\n<li>AI Behavior<\/li>\n<li>Lobby Authentication to prevent impersonation<\/li>\n<li>Nomad Mode on all Random Maps<\/li>\n<li>New Random Maps: Lower Nubia, Jebel Barkal, Elephantine, Fields of Mero\u00eb, Hellas, Dodecanese, Scythian Rivulet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install 0 A.D. alpha 23 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The Wildfire Games team offers an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~wfg\/+archive\/ubuntu\/0ad\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a> that contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg\/0ad<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) when prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0ad-ppa-xenial-600x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0ad-ppa-xenial-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0ad-ppa-xenial-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0ad-ppa-xenial.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade the game from an existing release via Software Updater:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0ad-upgrade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0ad-upgrade-450x287.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade 0 A.D.\" width=\"450\" height=\"287\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0ad-upgrade-450x287.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0ad-upgrade-600x383.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0ad-upgrade.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or simply run commands to update and install the game:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install 0ad 0ad-data<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Purge the PPA via the following command will remove the PPA as well as downgrade 0 A.D. to its stock version in your Ubuntu:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:wfg\/0ad<\/pre>\n<p>If you still want to remove the game, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove 0ad 0ad-data<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new release of the free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare, 0 A.D. Alpha 23 &#8220;Ken Wood&#8221;, was released a day ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04. New features in 0 A.D. Alpha 23 according to the release note: New Civilization:\u00a0Kushites Mod Downloader Cavalry and Spartan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1161,1189],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-0-a-d","tag-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}