Use the following instructions:

  1. Install the playdeb package.

  2. Or configure the repository manually:

    Go to System-Administration-Software Sources, Third-Party Software tab, Add:

    deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu oneiric-getdeb games

    Add the repository GPG key, open a terminal window and type:

    wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
  3. Click the "Install this now" button below the screenshot of the desired game.

  4. If you are using Kubuntu please check bug 476853.

  5. If the application cannot be found, run this command and try again:

    sudo apt-get update

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Version: 0.0.0+r10803~alpha-1~getdeb1

Historically based Real Time Strategy game focusing on the years 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. It is a war/economy strategy game allowing you to recreate or rewrite the ancient history of western civilisations.

Available for Ubuntu: 11.10

Updated: 2012-01-26 20:02:08 | Changes

Version: 0.7.0-1~getdeb1

GemRB (Game engine made with pre-Rendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine. It was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset (Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, Planescape: Torment).

Available for Ubuntu: 11.10

Updated: 2012-01-26 18:14:08 | Changes

Version: 1.4.1-1~getdeb1

ScummVM is an interpreter and emulator for several classic graphic point-and-click adventure games. Support is currently available for: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1, and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system.

Available for Ubuntu: 10.04, 11.10

Updated: 2012-01-26 14:24:28 | Changes

Version: 1.2-1~getdeb1

A single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, with a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.

Available for Ubuntu: 10.04, 11.10

Updated: 2012-01-23 20:39:30 | Changes

Version: 5-1~getdeb1

Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet wants to be a fast-paced, teamwork-oriented, non-stop-action multiplayer PC FPS game that allows players to achieve a high degree of mastery. Its main influences are Subspace/Continuum, Starsiege: Tribes and Tron.

Available for Ubuntu: 11.10

Updated: 2011-12-17 14:18:26 | Changes