Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl for Linux
In this session, we're going to download and install Stencyl on Linux.
Visit www.stencyl.com.
Click on the Download Now button on the home page.
Depending on which web browser you are using and how you have configured it, the latest Stencyl installation file will start to download automatically, or you may have to confirm that you accept the download and specify the download location.
When the download has completed, right-click on the downloaded
tar.gzfile and select the Open With Archive Manager option as shown in the following screenshot:
Open the folder where the files were extracted.
Stencyl is now ready to run!
What just happened?
We have just downloaded the latest version of Stencyl for Linux, and the installation is now complete.
The Linux version of Stencyl doesn't really need installing – we just needed to extract the files to create the Stencyl folder so that the application files are accessible.
If you want to delete the original download file, that's fine; it isn't needed anymore.
Creating a Stencyl account
Now that we have installed Stencyl, the next step is to run a quick test to ensure that everything is working, so we can then dive into the next chapter and create our first game.
