FOSS transport building sim OpenTTD adds official Ubuntu 20.04 packages

By Liam Dawe - 5 June 2020 at 10:12 am UTC

Want to jump into the latest version of OpenTTD and you're on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Good news, they now have some official packages setup for it.

Info - OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features and accessibility enhancements.

You could have installed it previously using the Snap package but considering how slow they can often be to start, and plenty of people just don't like Snaps, having proper native .deb packages setup seems like a good idea. This way they enable as many people on Ubuntu as possible to easily play OpenTTD.

Recently they also released a small 1.10.2 bug-fix update. Following on from the huge update release in April, it had a few issues lingering around that needed solving. These issues included various crash bugs, desync issues, a memory leak and more so it sounds like quite an essential upgrade to do.

Find out more on the official OpenTTD website.

Interested in more open source revamps like OpenTTD? You should check out OpenMW, openXcom and OpenRA.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Building Sim, Open Source, Simulation, Ubuntu | Apps: OpenTTD

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About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.
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