Install Battle of Wesnoth 1.14.6 in Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04

Battle of Wesnoth is an open source strategy game with a high fantasy theme, It allows single player, online/hotseat multiplayer combat...

Battle of Wesnoth is an open source strategy game with a high fantasy theme, It allows single player, online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

A new updated version has released with fix of bug fixes and improvements.

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Battle of Wesnoth 1.14.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 and higher versions (18.04)

Change log

• Updated Chinese,french,Russian translation
• Use explicit casts to accommodate changes to boost's tribool in 1.69
• Made regex for matching network addresses stricter
• Fix Xcode project
• Fix AI crashes
• Give the cave underground time of day.

Install Battle of Wesnoth on Ubuntu

Battle of Wesnoth can be installed on ubuntu via flatpak repository

1:Install Flatpak

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak

2:Update repository and install flatpak

sudo apt update && sudo apt install flatpak

3: Add the flatphub repository

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

4: Restart the PC and add the below command to install

flatpak install flathub org.wesnoth.Wesnoth

5:Launch the game

flatpak run org.wesnoth.Wesnoth

Uninstall Battle of Wesnoth

Simply run the below command to uninstall completely

flatpak uninstall org.wesnoth.Wesnoth