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OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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hi everyone,

I'd love to run OpenTTD 13 on my raspberry pi, which is running Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian Bullseye. It seems that on bullseye only OpenTTD 1.10.3-1 is available. Is that on purpose? I'd really like to upgrade. but don't want to run the Pi on unstable debian branch. Is there a way to run OpenTTD13 on bullseye?

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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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Probably, but you would need to compile it yourself since RasPi isn't officially supported.
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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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Thank Kamnet for your swift answer! Much appreciated!

Let me may be re-phrase my question, as it was no so much Pi-related, but rather Debian-related: Is there a OpenTTD-13-armhf-binary, which runs on Debian Bullseye? The only binary I could find (https://packages.debian.org/sid/armhf/openttd/download) is solely available for sid (Debian unstable), whilst the stable versions are still back on 1.10.3-1 (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/ar ... d/download).

Thanks once more!

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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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if you want "bleeding edge" technology like "current openttd", maybe you should consider switching distributions.
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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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It's not likely that you'll see an updated version of OTTD in Debian Bullseye, as Bullseye is a stable release, so not much will change until the next stable release.

Your options, essentially, are:
  • Upgrade to Debian Bookworm or Debian Sid
  • Download OTTD from openttd.org, and not have it installed through dpkg.
  • Compile it from source, also obtained from openttd.org
  • Switch to another flavour of Linux.
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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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OpenTTD only supports generic linux binaries on x86 processors, so for any ARM processor, like RasPi, you will still need to compile your own.
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Re: OpenTTD 13 only on sid (unstable debian)

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You might be able to compile, package, and install the version from Debian unstable (sid) under stable (bullseye) as follows.

Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

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deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main
Then, use these commands:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts
mkdir -p src/debian/
cd src/debian
apt-get source openttd
sudo apt-get build-dep openttd
debuild -b -uc -us
cd ..
ls *.deb
If everything went as expected, you should see three packages. You won’t need the dbgsym package; to install the other two do this:

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sudo dpkg -i openttd_*.deb openttd-data_*.deb
See the Debian building tutorial for more information.
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