lgeneral for Debian
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How to play a game
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In order to play a game you need to go to the menu (right-click) and select one of
the free WWI scenarios (S). You can also play the original Panzer General
campaign (open the menu, click on C and choose PG), but only if you own a copy
of that game yourself. Debian is not allowed to distribute those data files.
Without them the original campaign won't start and nothing will happen when you
click on PG. However you can easily create a Debian package for the Panzer
General campaign by using game-data-packager. See the Panzer General section
for more information. Please also read README.lgeneral for further instructions
on how to play the game.

Werner Archan's PG FAQ also contains lots of useful information how to master
Panzer General.
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/LGeneral/PanzerGeneral-Guru.txt


Free data - the kukgen scenarios
================================

Free data for LGeneral was introduced for the first time with lgeneral-data in
2014. You are able to command the k.u.k. army of World War I in multiple single
scenarios. This campaign is not complete yet but should be playable although
the fun may vary. You can select single scenarios by opening the menu and
selecting ((S), kukgen, scenario). Playtesting, feedback and suggestions for
improvements are most welcome.

You can gather more information about LGeneral for Debian at
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/LGeneral.


Panzer General
==============

In order to convert the original Panzer General data to LGeneral's native file
format, you have to install lgc-pg and game-data-packager. You can obtain those
data files from the original Panzer General CD-ROM or with game-data-packager.

Examples
========

Together with lgc-pg, game-data-packager creates a proper debian
package which you just need to install. If you own a copy of Panzer General
yourself, you can do the following:

1. Convert the original Panzer General game data and create a Debian package.

    game-data-packager lgeneral -f pg-data.tar.gz

2. Fetch a compressed pg-data archive of Panzer General game data from the web
   and create a Debian package.

    game-data-packager lgeneral -w

You can directly convert the data by extracting the tar.gz archive and
performing the following command. This will install all files into
/usr/share/games/lgeneral if you run lgc-pg with appropriate permissions.
(Not recommended, better use game-data-packager)

    lgc-pg -s <path-to-your-pg-data-directory>

 -- Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de>  Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:21:19 +0100