Install Marathon on Linux ARM Device

Marathon

Marathon, Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity are single and online multiplayer old school 1st person shooter games.
Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie™’s Marathon® 2 game engine and played these games.
Many third party scenarios and net maps are also available. Available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
This package includes the Marathon trilogy.

To run:
Menu -> Games -> Marathon, Marathon 2, or Marathon Infinity

To run in a terminal:
/usr/local/bin/alephone ~/AlephOneData/Marathon/
/usr/local/bin/alephone ~/AlephOneData/Marathon_2/
/usr/local/bin/alephone ~/AlephOneData/Marathon_Infinity/

Fortunately, Marathon is very easy to install on your Linux ARM Device in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Linux ARM Device.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Marathon.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest LTS of Ubuntu or Debian from your hardware manufacturer.
Marathon will run on either an Ubuntu/Debian ARM32 OS or ARM64 OS.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Linux ARM Device with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Marathon

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Marathon.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Games category.

Now scroll down to find Marathon in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Marathon for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io