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Automatic Games Installer for JDS Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the penguin-friendly-game-updates-made-easy dept.

Ricardo Wagemaker writes "GccInstaller is a automatic games installation software created to facilitated the installation of games on JDS Linux. Although still in development, with GccInstaller it will be easier to install games than it is to play them. Every time GccInstaller is launched it will check for a update and show you what the current version is, as well as a list of games available to Gccinstaller. Just select install and it will download patches to a temp area and install them on your local system."

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  1. Okay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So once I'm done with my breezy-easy install of Frozen Bubble, maybe the devolopers can get on with it and START PUBLISHING SOME MORE GAMES FOR LINUX!?

    Seriously, apart from the JDS buzzword this is something any of us could write in an afternoon.

  2. hmmm by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Insightful
    it appears to be an rpm wrapper... that requires java 1.5 of all things, and currently only works on the Java Desktop from Sun...

    And there was me thinking it was going to download the source for the game and compile it using gcc... oh, "gcc" stands for Global Computer Corporation...

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  3. or how about this by 77Punker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    apt-get install (gameofyourchoice) instead

  4. Seems like there's a few good alternatives to this by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People have already posted that you can do similar things with tools like emerge, apt, yum, etc. So maybe it would make more sence to make a front end that can work with all of these, tailored towards games? Anything that brings more gaming to linux is welcome.