Savage

SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth is an FPS game with RTS elements. Players can choose to play as the role of the Commander and lead the team, or play as a warrior and fight to destroy the enemy's Stronghold.

New install

 * 1) With the Savage cdrom inserted and mounted execute the following command, replacing $CD_PATH with the path to your cdrom.
 * sh $CD_PATH/INSTALL.linux
 * 1) A window titled "License Agreement" should pop-up if the command was executed succesfully. Read the agreemtnt and click the "I Agree" button to accept the license and proceed.
 * 2) A new window titled "Savage:The Battle for Newerth Setup" will pop-up with options regarding the installation. The options are:
 * 3) *General Options
 * 4) **Install Path - Where you want Savage installed.
 * 5) **Install a symbolic link into the path - Whether a symbolic link should be made to the savage binary.
 * 6) ***Link path - Where the symbolic link should be made.
 * 7) *Install Options
 * 8) **Savage Linux Client - Whether to install the Savage Client. (You want this)
 * 9) **Savage Map Editor - Whether to install the Map Editor.
 * 10) **Desktop menu items - Whether to install shortcuts in the KDE/Gnome Menu.
 * 11) ;When the options are set to your liking, you may proceed with the install by clicking the "Begin Install" button.
 * 12) The window will switch to show the progress of the installation and will display a dialogue showing whether the installation was succesful, or not.


 * Once the installer completes you will need to update Savage to the latest version if you want to play online.

Updating

 * 1) To update Savage you will need to download the following files:
 * 2) *savage_patch_200b.tar.gz (73 MB)
 * 3) **http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/135941.shtml
 * 4) *savage_patch_200b_to_200c.tar.gz (1.4 MB)
 * 5) **http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/136205.shtml
 * Mirrors for the above files can be found at http://www.s2games.com/savage/downloads.html
 * 1) Open up a terminal and cd to the directory you installed savage in.
 * 2) Run the following commands in the savage directory, replacing $PATH_TO_DOWNLOAD_DIR with the directory you downloaded the Savage updates to in step 1.
 * tar xvzf $PATH_TO_DOWNLOAD_DIR/savage_patch_200b.tar.gz
 * tar xvzf $PATH_TO_DOWNLOAD_DIR/savage_patch_200b_to_200c.tar.gz

Uninstallation

 * 1) Open up a terminal and cd to the directory you installed Savage in.
 * 2) Run the following command:
 * sh uninstall
 * 1) The Savage directory may be safely deleted.