How to install Moria on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Moria on Ubuntu 17.04

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 Ubuntu 17.04.

Installation procedure

To proceed with the installation procedure, add the required repo in Ubuntu default repository path by executing the vim editor and make the following changes in the file. Save and exit the file.

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe

The repo is added to the file successfully. Update the target system by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu zesty InRelease         
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu zesty InRelease         
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease          
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease       
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease      
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,201 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1,196 kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [568 kB]
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83% [Waiting for headers]
Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [7,448 kB]
Fetched 34.6 MB in 3min 50s (150 kB/s)  
Reading package lists... Done

The repositories are added successfully in the system. Now install Moria by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install moria
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 285 not upgraded.
Need to get 270 kB of archives.
After this operation, 578 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 moria amd64 5.6.debian.1-2build1 [270 kB]
Fetched 270 kB in 3s (76.1 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package moria.
(Reading database ... 174350 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 mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.04.20170406-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Setting up moria (5.6.debian.1-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

The application is added to the target system. To run the application, type the moria in the Ubuntu dashboard and click on the icon to run the application.

The Moria application is running on the system successfully.

The installation procedure of Moria on Ubuntu 17.04 is done without any glitches.