How to Download and Install Dwarf Fortress on Linux!

This is a new video that (I hope) explains the concepts from my video last year in a more easy-to-understand way.

[@justinguiel714]

this was so helpful, thanks! I was completely stumped. also, for your reference, the period in ./df is just saying "this directory, run file df." If you want to run it from the home directory, you have to tell it where to look. Depending where your working directory is (where you are cd'ed into currently) you can run dwarf fortress with something like ./downloads/df_linux/df or ~/path/to/df_linux/df which should work. The tilde, or ~ symbol, specifies home. so you could be in any directory you want to be in and run ~/downloads/df_linux/df

[@atanasaleksandrov7253]

This helped, thanks!

[@dh5680]

thanks for this! im literally like, you know, kinda just, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!yk???

[@squanderingsquid]

You're welcome!! I'm so glad it helped.

[@dh5680]

@@squanderingsquid BTW! If you still wanna make a short cut for to open DF in one command you can make an alias in your ~/.bashrc for cd ~/Downloads/df_linux && ./df

[@dh5680]

If you're using zsh it's ~/.zshrc

[@squanderingsquid]

Yep! I actually figured it out shortly after making the video, now I just have to put "dorftime" in my terminal and it opens!

[@dh5680]

@@squanderingsquid sick

[@asgoritolinasgoritolino7708]

Omg thank you for this! I thought I was a noob that couldn't install on linux, but I guess the wiki is just wrong or outdated. Lmao why does it have to work like that?

[@willkendallpro]

Garuda linux is as good as linux gets as far as I am concerned.

[@vince_unemployed]

Yo sir, help me out, installing it on linux mint. Df 50 11 version, files have changed

[@squanderingsquid]

I haven't done much with the new update admittedly but I just tried downloading on PopOs (so should be similar to Mint). Ran good out of the box for me, just download it from their website, extract it to the folder you want, and then instead of ./df, ./dwarfort should run it for you (make sure you're in the right directory). I didn't need to mess with the library at all so it seems they may have fixed that issue. Hopefully this helps.

[@josegc9802]

I've been days struggling with an error "Not found: data/art/mouse.png" About to give up on dwarf fortress for now