History: Installing the Ogre SDK on Linux - Shoggoth

• To use the latest Ogre and Ubuntu releases, you will need to Ubuntu .2F Kubuntu|build from source.<br />
• Ubuntu 8.04: find .deb packages (amd64) here<br />
• Kubuntu 7.10: install the following Ogre 1.4 packages:<br />

blender-ogrexml<br /> libogre-dev<br /> libogre14<br /> libogre14-dbg<br /> ogre-doc<br /> ogre-tools<br /> ogre-tools-dbg<br />

• Ubuntu 6.04: Ogre (1.2) was included in the Ubuntu Universe repository and officially supported.<br />
• Ubuntu 5.04: Here are http://nrg.joroinen.fi/ubuntu504_ogre3d/ OGRE 1.0.3 packages for Ubuntu 5.04.<br />

<br /> Ubuntu is Debian derived<br /> Precompiled Debian packages may work in Ubuntu. See the Debian section for the packages. You may need to temporarily add in the Debian unstable archives to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to find them, or you can download them manually from http://packages.debian.org.<br />

The latest version of OGRE is only available for Debian/Sid (not yet in Debian/Testing). The precompiled packages support only the GLX graphics subsystem. Use the source packages or build from source if you need the SDL graphics subsystem.<br /> <br /> You can find a running thread in the OGRE forums about the Debian packages at this place.Look for the latest post by fog for installation instructions on Debian Sid.<br /> <br /> Packages<br /> Packages provided for OGRE in main:<br />

• source package : ogre<br />
• binary packages : libogre5 libogre-dev libogre5-dbg ogre-tools ogre-doc blender-ogrexml<br />

<br /> You can also find the CgProgramManager OGRE plugin in contrib:<br />

• source package : ogre-contrib<br />
• binary packages : ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager<br />

<br /> Although not OGRE specific, Crazy Eddie's GUI System (CEGUI) is available in main too (version 0.4.1) :<br />

• source package : cegui-mk2<br />
• binary packages : libcegui-mk2-dev libcegui-mk2-0 libcegui-mk2-doc libcegui-mk2-0-dbg<br />

<br /> NOTE: some package names have changed over time. to find what you want, just do a "search" on<br /> key-terms, like: "ogre", "cegui".<br /> <br /> Installation<br /> If you only want to be able to run applications linked dynamically to OGRE, just type :<br /> <br /> <br /> If you want to develop applications with OGRE, you can type :<br /> <br /> <br /> Note that these packages are dependant on other ones, you'll be asked if you want to install them.<br /> <br /> If you don't like command-line interfaces, you can try other package managers like Synaptic (graphical) or Aptitude (console).<br /> <br /> Note for KDE Users:<br /> Ogre depends on the latest version of the openexr2 package on which kde also depends.Upgrading ogre may uninstall all the kde packages.To avoid problems upgrade to latest version of kde before upgrading ogre.If in doubt visit #debian-kde on irc.freenode.net.<br />

For the latest Fedora and Ogre releases, you will need to build from source.<br /> <br /> RPMs are available on:<br />

• Fedora Core 2 & 3 , ogre 1.0.3 Xadeck's website: http://artis.inrialpes.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/ogre/.<br />
• Fedora Core 5 , ogre >= 1.2.0RC2 ntroncos' website: http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/~ntroncos/ogre.php.<br />