Some very useful Ubuntu tips.

To find out what repository a package came from, use the dpkg -s command. jason@jason-desktop:~$ dpkg -s zdoom Package: zdoom Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 9330 Maintainer: DRD Team <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.8.1 Depends: libc6, libstdc++6, zlib1g, bzip2, libgtk2.0-0 Recommends: timidity, libfluidsynth1 Description: Advanced Doom source port.jason@jason-desktop:~$ dpkg -s zdoom … Read more

How to play Doom on Linux with the Russian Overkill mod for fun.

Playing Russian Overkill is a lot of fun, and this can be done on Linux as well as Windows. We need to add another repository to Ubuntu to manage this. Add the required package repository. I am assuming you already have a copy of classic Doom and the Russian Overkill mod. sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ … Read more