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Play Red Alert 2 on a Ubuntu#

Introduction#

I play Red Alert 2, and have been struggling to get it working on recent versions of wine. I use a modified version of openra to play, which I found was great at giving me the added bonus of a "remastered" feel to the game.

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Install#

First we need to install Microsoft dotnet.

Add the Microsoft Repo: 

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Now install dotnet 6:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

Now download OpenRA with the ra2 mod:

cd ~
wget https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd ra2-master
make all

Create the game directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config/openra/Content/ra2

Copy the game files

cp -r ~/Games/RedAlert2/* ~/.config/openra/Content/ra2/

Launch the game with

./launch-game.sh