How I got LAC working during my first experimental use of SLAXX LINUX

[bbosen]

After getting SLAXX Linux to boot up on my computer according to its published documentation and confirming that it seemed to be working as expected on my hardware, I took several specific, simple steps to get Linux Air Combat working as follows:

I downloaded LAC's sourcecode as described elsewhere in LAC's documentation.

I fired up a bash shell and entered the directory containing LAC's source code. Then I issued all of these commands, one at a time, to obtain all of the prerequisite libraries and tools for LAC's compilation and execution:

apt install build-essential
apt install freeglut3
apt install freeglut3-dev
apt install Sdl*
apt install libsdl1.2-dev
apt install libsdl-mixer*

With those libraries and tools in place, I compiled LAC and its installer with these commands

make clean
make
make install
./install

After that, LAC ran nicely. As documented elsewhere, there are several options for starting LAC. The simplest is just to "cd" to my home directory and issue the new "lac" command by typing:

./lac

Whereupon LAC starts up immediately and new users can exercise and configure it through its prominent menus.

[bbosen]

LAC has been updated substantially since the prior posting in this thread. Current versions of lac are always installed in the global /usr filesystem where they can be more easily found from anywhere in the LINUX filesystem. Accordingly, instead of typing the command "./lac" from your home folder, you can now just type "lac" from anywhere in your filesystem.