How do I install Adventure Game Studio AGS Editor in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) ? I am pretty sure it can be built for Linux too, I just am not very experienced in building things from source.
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1According to appdb.winehq.org/… AGS has a bronze compatibility level with Wine on Ubuntu. That means, you can try to install Wine and run AGS inside that. You will probably not get 100% satisfying results though. For Wine on Arch Linux, the rating is gold, so it works better there for some reason...– Byte Commander ♦Jan 29, 2017 at 13:04
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You are going to need Wine in order to install and run Windows software/games.
I will link you to the official WineHQ Wiki. It has all the information you need to install Wine.
Then is as simple as to install the software just like you would do in windows.
N.B : As pointed out by Byte Commander AGS has a bronze compatibility level, so you should expect issue installing/running this specific software.
Here is a link to a description of how to install it on a variety of Linux platforms, including Ubuntu. It also has debugging information that I won't be showing here.
The following code should be typed into the terminal: Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install git debhelper build-essential pkg-config libaldmb1-dev libfreetype6-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev
Download the source with git
git clone git://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags.git
cd ags # change to the ags directory
Build the package fakeroot debian/rules binary
Install it with gdebi sudo gdebi ../ags_3~git-1_*.deb
EDIT: Sorry, just realized you were asking for the editor. Yes, you'll need Wine for that unfortunately (Source)