How to install Moria – 5.6 on Linux mint – 18.3

To install Moria &ndash 5.6 on Linux Mint &ndash 18.3

Moria is a computer game based on the famous novel - The Lord of the Rings. Moria is a single player dungeon simulation game in which the player can choose a character from a number of races and classes when a character is created. The created character is run for over a period of time, ranging from days to months. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Moria on Linux Mint 18.3

Installation

Let' s First Start with updating the system repositories.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                          
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                             
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease       
Hit:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release
Reading package lists... Done 

As moria comes with the default system repository you can install it as follows.

linuxhelp user # apt-get install moria -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:
moria
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 277 not upgraded.
Need to get 270 kB of archives. 
After this operation, 578 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 moria amd64 5.6.debian.1-2build1 [270 kB]
Fetched 270 kB in 1s (206 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package moria.
(Reading database ... 223980 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../moria_5.6.debian.1-2build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking moria (5.6.debian.1-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up moria (5.6.debian.1-2build1) ...

After installing you can access the application from the menu.

The moria application will open on the terminal as you can see here, press any key to continue.

Now you need to set up a user profile for the game. Choose a Race type first.

And then select the gender.

Now you can select the characters.

And then class.

Finally, choose the player name and exit.

After the setup press any key to continue.

A Game console will appear on your terminal now.

With this, the method to install moria on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.