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5.6. Lab Exercise
Exercise 1: Installing a game on Ubuntu. During a recent get together with your friends, you heard a lot of good things about a game that they play on their Linux operating system. You wish to play the same game, but you cannot find that game in the games package that got installed with Ubuntu. What do you need to do in order to play this game on your computer?
Procedure 5.5. To perform the required task:
1. On the System menu, point to Administration and click Software Sources to display the Software Sources dialogue box.
2. On the Software Sources dialogue box, select the check boxes next to main and universe options. Retain the Main server option in the Download from category and clear the CDrom check box.
3. Click Close to display a prompt and then click Reload on the prompt to update the list of applications available.
4. To install the game, select Add/Remove on the Applications menu to display the Add/Remove Applica- tions window.
5. Select Games in the left pane of the window, change the Show list option to All Open Source Applications, type the name of the game in the Search box and press Enter.
6. Select the check box next to the game to mark it for installation and click Apply Changes.
7. On the confirmation dialogue box, click Apply to proceed.
8. After the installation of the game is complete, a dialogue box confirms the installation and provides the option to launch the installed game. Double-click the name of the game to launch it. Alternatively, you can close this dialogue box and launch the game by using the Applications menu on the desktop.
Exercise 2: Installing Wine and playing a Microsoft Windows game on Ubuntu. You were browsing the Web one day and came across an interesting game. You downloaded it and every thing seemed fine until you realise that the game could be played only on Microsoft Windows, which is not installed on your computer. You really liked the game, how do you play this on Ubuntu?
Procedure 5.6. To play a Windows game on Ubuntu:
1. Install wine and wine-dev packages from Synaptic Package Manager.
2. Open the games setup tool with Wine.
3. Start the games from the Applications menu.
