How to install OpenTTD on Debian 8.3

How to install OpenTTD on Debian 8.3

The OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money via transporting passengers and freight by road, rail, sea and air. It supports many languages. This tutorial explains the installation process of OpenTTD on Debian 8.3

Installation procedure

To begin with the installation procedure, execute the following nano command to open the sources.list file.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The sources.list file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next execute the following command to update the apt sources-list in the target system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]     
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease                     
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                 
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]                                
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                                          
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]                                   
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]                                   
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]                  
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]                            
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]                            
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]                 
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                           
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]             
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]             
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 5min 22s (72.6 kB/s)                                                             
Reading package lists... Done

Run the following command to install the OpenTTD package.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install openttd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  esound-common libaudiofile1 libesd0 libxdg-basedir1 openttd-data openttd-opengfx openttd-openmsx
  timidity timidity-daemon
Suggested packages:
  pulseaudio-esound-compat openttd-opensfx pmidi fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  esound-common libaudiofile1 libesd0 libxdg-basedir1 openttd openttd-data openttd-opengfx
  openttd-openmsx timidity timidity-daemon
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,438 kB of archives.
After this operation, 24.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libaudiofile1 amd64 0.3.6-2+deb8u1 [114 kB]
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u3) ...

Once the package has been installed, type the package name in the ubuntu dashboard. Click on the icon and run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? OpenTTD also supports LAN and internet multiplayer, co-operative playing upto 255 players.