The current stable version 3.6.0.3-1.2 but a newer version (3.7.1-2 at the time of posting) is available in sid and isn't difficult to backport. The later version has improvements over the version in wheezy; for example, it allows games to be saved as in Glest Advanced Engine or GAE. (For further details of GAE for Debian, please see: forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=63527).
Just a reminder for any new users who may wonder why not just install directly from the sid repository, as noted at wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Newer_Software_For_Debian_Stable:
And also:If you need something that is not in backports, or something even newer than what's in backports, a good option is to backport the newer package yourself from the Debian sid/unstable release.
Before doing so, it is advisable to have a look at the hardware requirements at README.txt. For example, it works very well on NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce210] (revb a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller] with the wheezy default xserver-xorg-video-nouveau display driver. Note also that it can take a long time to build the deb packages, even with a fairly powerful machine.Backporting (recompiling and repackaging) is the only safe way to install packages from Debian Sid or Debian Testing on a Debian stable system. Do not install such packages without backporting. Attempting to "mix" releases, especially by updating your sources.list file, is a sure way to break your system.
Add ONLY a "deb-src ..." line for sid to your sources.list file. One way to do it is:
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# echo "deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update
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# apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential
# apt-get build-dep megaglest
# exit
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$ mkdir megaglest && cd megaglest
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$ apt-get -b source megaglest
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$ ls
megaglest-3.7.1 megaglest_3.7.1-2.dsc
megaglest_3.7.1-2_amd64.changes megaglest_3.7.1.orig.tar.xz
megaglest_3.7.1-2_amd64.deb megaglest-dbg_3.7.1-2_amd64.deb
megaglest_3.7.1-2.debian.tar.gz
As root:
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# apt-get build-dep megaglest-data
# exit
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$ apt-get -b source megaglest-data
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user@localhost:~/megaglest$ ls
megaglest-3.7.1 megaglest_3.7.1-2.dsc megaglest-data_3.7.1-1_amd64.changes megaglest-data_3.7.1.orig.tar.xz
megaglest_3.7.1-2_amd64.changes megaglest_3.7.1.orig.tar.xz megaglest-data_3.7.1-1.debian.tar.gz megaglest-dbg_3.7.1-2_amd64.deb
megaglest_3.7.1-2_amd64.deb megaglest-data-3.7.1 megaglest-data_3.7.1-1.dsc
megaglest_3.7.1-2.debian.tar.gz megaglest-data_3.7.1-1_all.deb megaglest-data_3.7.1.orig-source.tar.xz
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$ su -c "dpkg -i megaglest_3.7.1-2_amd64.deb megaglest-data_3.7.1-1_all.deb"