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In order to be able to install games from PlayDeb.net, you should add the repository to your software sources. Repositories, covered with greater detail in 20, are storage locations from which software packages can be downloaded and installed. Let s follow the steps of adding PlayDeb.net as a source. This training will help you when adding any other source of Ubuntu games. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Try to install a game from PlayDeb.net and verify if you get an error message. Open System Software tab. Administration Software Sources. Go to the Other

Click Add and in the apt line textbox copy the following line : deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu lucid-getdeb games Click Add Source. Don t close the Software Sources dialog box. Open a web browser and copy the following line in the address bar : http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key You will be prompted to open or save the key file. It will be stored in your Downloads folder. Go back to the Software Sources dialog box and click the Authentication tab.

10. Click Import Key File and browse to your Downloads folder. Double-click the downloaded key. 11. Click Close. You will be prompted to update the catalog on your computer. Accept. 12. Try to install the game once again. You should be successful this time! Although PlayDeb.net is just one of many additional sources of games for Ubuntu, this demo is useful because adding software sources is almost always the same two-step process: adding the repository in the Other Software tab, and importing the key in the Authentication tab. The next time you open the Ubuntu Software Center after reloading the catalog, you should see under Get Software a new entry, GetDeb, along with Provided by Ubuntu and Canonical Partners. If you select GetDeb, the list of available games will be displayed in the main pane. To install a new game, just select it and click Install, as you would for any application. Congratulations ! You now have access to more than 200 additional games!

Many things have been said about the cloud and cloud-based applications especially about how you will no longer need to install applications locally on your hard drive to use it, because they will always be available online. In no area is this trend is more obvious and mainstream than in the world of gaming. And when you talk of online gaming, you more often than not come to rely on Adobe Flash. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by its successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in many scripting languages. Despite the advance of other web gaming technologies and of the recent Steve Job s attack on Flash, more and more games based on this technology are created each day and made available online entirely for free. Search for free flash game in Google or Yahoo, and a seemingly interminable list of sites will be displayed. It s hard to avoid them if you like to play.

But when you try to open those games after installing Ubuntu, you find that Firefox tells you that Additional plug-ins are required to display all the media on this page, and where the game should be, a broken link is all you get. Many people have thought that that was all for Linux, that they could never be able to play Flash games in Ubuntu. This isn t so. In fact, there s not one but three different ways of playing Flash files in your Ubuntu computer, but none of them is installed by default. You can see them in your browser if you click the Additional plugins bar. They are listed in Table 19-2. Table 19-2. Flash Players