[Tmpy]

I think someone should sticky this or sticky something similar if they can do better.  It would have helped me a lot  had something like this been available.

How to get the source code for fs2_open 3.6.9 so that you can compile and use it:

0.)  What you need:  cvs libopenal-dev, libvorbis-dev, libtheora-dev, automake1.9, autoconf, libsdl-dev, and of course you will need the essential build tools for your distro.

1.)  Open a terminal.

2.)  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:[email protected]:/home/fs2source/cvsroot login

3.)  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/fs2source/cvsroot checkout -r fs2_open_3_6_9 fs2_open

And there you have it.  You now possess the source code inside a new folder named 'fs2_open'.  If you want the CURRENT TESTING branch (it will most certainly have errors), then for step three do:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/fs2source/cvsroot co fs2_open

instead.

If you want to skip all that, you can get a 3.6.9 source tarball I made as of January 14th, 2007 .  Please note that if any changes are made to the 3.6.9 stable branch, said tarball will become obsolete.  I wouldn't recommend that you go asking for help in that case.  So it's better if you just grab it from cvs until an **official** 3.6.9 stable source tarball is available.

Mods, feel free to edit this post to your heart's content.

Thanks to all the devs.    They work hard to bring us this project, and it's easy to piss them off - so watch out!