Topic: Installing latest build on Kubuntu

I want to install the latest build on a 32-bit Kubuntu system but:

1) When I follow the link for Linux (arch) the build is from 2012. It appears to offer source code and someone indicates that it cannot be compiled.

2) When I then follow the link for the Ubuntu version, it says something about PPA. I don't know what this is and where It can be found on a Kubuntu computer, if it exists there.

I assume that the solution will be simple since installing Widelands went as smoothly as possible; can someone help me out?

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PPA stands for personal package archive - it is essentially something you add to your apt sources.list and which will get queried when you do an apt-get install (or install via any gui program like aptitude). It will essentially guarantee that you are using the latest version of Widelands on an system.

Our PPA with daily builds is here: https://launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/+archive/widelands-daily Installing from it should be as simple as opening a terminal and typing:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:widelands-dev:widelands-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install widelands

I'll update the Wiki in a second.

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Thanks for your reactions.

The Kubuntu version number appears to be confidential, I couldn't find it.

I tried both links but they continuously produced error messages: please try again.

I tried to run SirVer's commands but the first sentence returns (after a long time of waiting, as with the links): Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~widelands-dev/+archive/ppa) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection.

However, internet work fine as you can see. I have had these problems with the links to launchpad multiple times before.

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