Install Guide for Wings3d Linux Binaries

Prerequisites

Thes are all things that need to be installed before wings3d will work.

An OpenGL implementation (pick any one of the following)

MesaGL usually included with your distro. You can get it from http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net
Accelerated Drivers for NVidia's TNT2, GeForce and Quadro ranges from http://www.nvidia.com
Accelerated Drivers for Ati's Radeon 8500 and Ati's FireGL 8500 from http://www.ati.com
An Accelerated X server

GLU (pick one of the following)

MesaGLU (usually installs along with MesaGL)
SGI GLU can be gotten from http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net

SDL most linux distros include a version. You can get the latest from http://www.libsdl.org
for some strange reason Wings requires libgcc (usually installed with gcc) make sure you have this package installed.

Installation

In a terminal become the super user (you need to know the root password to do this)

eg: su [Enter] [root password] [Enter]

copy the archive to the root of the file system

eg: cp wingslinux-0.97.04_a.tar.bz2 / [Enter]

go to the root of the filesystem

cd / [Enter]

Unpack the archive (Note not all distrobutions come with a version of tar that can uncompress Bzip2 files if this is the case you will need to use bunzip2 then tar without the j option to uncompress the archive)

eg: tar -cvjf wingslinux-0.97.04_a.tar.bz2 [Enter]

remove the archive

eg: rm /wingslinux-0.97.04_a.tar.bz2 [Enter]

make wings3d more accesible (optional).

eg: ln -s /opt/wings-0.97.04/wings3d /usr/bin/wings3d [Enter]

leave super user mode

exit [Enter]

Running

if you did step 6 simply type wings3d [Enter] into your terminal or create a new icon or menu entry with wings3d as the command. If you did not do step 6 you will need to type in the full path eg /opt/wings-0.97.04/wings3d [Enter] for both the terminal and for icons/menu entries.

Uninstallation

As super user (see installation) remove the directory containing the version you want to get rid of. eg rm -r /opt/wings-0.97.04 [Enter] (be careful this command is incredibly dangerous and don't forget to leave superuser mode). If you want to completely remove wings3d from your system you might want to remove the .wings hidden file.