

Few days back we wrote about Arx Libertatis, a free and open source project that ports popular first person 3D RPG Arx Fatalis to Linux.

Few days back we wrote about, a free and open source project that ports popular first person 3D RPG Arx Fatalis to Linux.





Arx Libertatis has been released. Plus there is PPA for Ubuntu, portable binaries and packages for your favorite Linux distributions, so installation is simpler than ever and no need to compile.



Lots of great work has been done since then and a new stable version ofhas been released. Plus there is, so installation is simpler than ever and no need to compile.





Arx Libertatis Version 1.0 Features

Cross-platform support: Windows and Linux

Configurable windowing + renderer, input and audio backends

Save game list is sorted so that latest save is at the top

Configurable number of quicksave slots

Shortcut to toggle windowed and fullscreen mode (default is Alt+Enter)

Video config menu displays the aspect ratio along with resolutions

Separated window size and fullscreen resolution

Added an "automatic" fullscreen resolution setting that always chooses the highest available one

Support for system-wide installation and per-user configuration / savegames (follows the XDG Base Directory Specification under linux)

Ported to amd64 architecture

A single binary can automatically run the demo or full game data

Automatic language detection for the data files

Added a crash reporter tool

Added tools to extract .pak and savegame files

Many fixes and improvements

Installation Instructions for Ubuntu (Lucid to Precise)





First, install Arx Libertatis by running commands below:





sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arx/release

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install arx-libertatis cabextract unzip





GOG. If you want to try the demo under Linux, follow the instructions below. While Arx Libertatis is free, actual game data is not. You can buy full version of Arx Fatalis from. If you want to try the demo under Linux, follow the instructions below.





here. Download Arx Fatalis Demo from





We need to tell Arx Libertatis where this game data is located. To do this, download the install-demo script and make it executable:





wget https://github.com/arx/ArxLibertatis/raw/master/scripts/install-demo $ chmod +x install-demo





Run the script as:





./install-demo <path/to/arx_demo_english.zip> ~/.local/share/arx





Now just launch Arx Libertatis from menu to play the game.



