This is the first post and with the announcement of the official repository of the Debian / Ubuntu.
The packages have been compiled on Debian Lenny, but I’m testing on Ubuntu Intrepid.
For any communication please contact me on valdan@valdan.net or write in the forum http://wif.altervista.org/index.php in the section “Un Pinguino a Wesnoth…”.
The commands to add the repository:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Paste the following text at the bottom:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/itwesnoth/debian/ binary/ #wesnoth binary stable/unstable
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/itwesnoth/debian/ sources/ #wesnoth sources stable/unstable
save and exit gedit and go in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
Now if you want to install the stable:
sudo apt-get install wesnoth
instead if you want to install the development:
sudo apt-get install wesnoth-unstable
The interesting thing is that the two packages are not in conflict with each other!
Then you can install them all!!!
Basic packages are only in English and Italian, but you can add other languages … See how.
Look for the string that corresponds to your language / usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
and now edit a file containing the string and insert it in the folder / var / lib / locales / supported.d /locales
reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure locales
For example, if there was the Italian should do this:
gedit /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
I try the string corresponding to Italian (ca_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8) to copy and edit a local
sudo gedit /var/lib/locales/supported.dlocal
paste in which the string
now reconfigure
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
and you’re done!


Hi, I’ve done the instructions, after sudo apt-get install wesnoth the terminal shows these:
-desktop:~$ apt-get install wesnoth
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install wesnoth
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wesnoth: Depends: wesnoth-core (>= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-core (< 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1.~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-httt (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-tsg (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-trow (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-ttb (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-ei (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-utbs (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-did (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-nr (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-sof (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-sotbe (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-l (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-aoi (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-thot (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-low (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-dm (= 1:1.8-1~karmic1~itwesnoth1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Is this fixable?
Tried to apt get install wesnoth core and got these:
wesnoth-core: Depends: libboost-iostreams1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libboost-regex1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libsdl-net1.2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
@Melki: What distribution uses, and which version?
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
Thanks for your help.
Is there a way I could install it without using synaptic? The reason why I went on such trouble is I don’t want to use Synaptic.
I need to know the licenses of those programs I download to my computer. With synaptic I don’t get to read the license first.
I hope to answer the right questions … my English is very poor.
The software is licensed under GPLv3.
To install from the terminal (to get a sure) write this in a terminal:
Let me know if you solved.
Hi, thanks a lot for your help.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
Building tag database… Done
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “wesnoth-all”
For now I decide to play wesnoth from windows.
Sorry for all your trouble