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Latest stable version[]

Windows[]

The two easiest options to install on Windows are:

  • Install the game using the Alien Arena Installer. This installer not only installs Alien Arena from the source, but you can also use it to easily keep it up-to-date and to launch the game. Please be aware that windows defender might give warnings while doing the installation of the installer. In that case, click on "More info" and then on "Run anyway".
  • Install the game from Steam: Alien Arena: Warriors of Mars.

You can chat in-game on IRC (and Discord) with the key "u".

Linux/BSD[]

When you are on Ubuntu 23.04: it's available in the package repository. For Debian 12 it will be available in June 2023. On Linux Mint and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS probably somewhere in 2024.

In that case, install with "sudo apt install alien-arena".

If you don't have one of these Linux distributions, you can install from Steam: Alien Arena Warriors of Mars. But because it is outdated, it's recommended to install from SVN.

Run with command line "alien-arena" or start it from the graphical app launcher.

SVN[]

Windows[]

Install TortoiseSVN, then checkout the files. You don't need to compile anything, just run alienarena.exe.

Linux[]

Install subversion.

Download the source code and files into a new folder called alienarena:

svn checkout svn://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk alienarena

Make sure you have the following libraries installed (this is for Debian/Ubuntu):

apt install sharutils libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxxf86dga-dev libxext-dev libx11-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libopenal-dev libvorbis-dev libfreetype6-dev pkg-config

Then build:

cd alienarena

./configure

make

sudo make install

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