As there was no recent hedgewars package for Ubuntu 10.04(bit old but it's the current LTS) i downloaded the debian hedgewars packages on my PC. hedgewars-data required no modification, but for the other one i had to tweek it slightly, here is my modified package for anyone running Ubuntu 10.04 still

Download hedgewars-data first, then get my package.

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/hedgewars-data/download

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46930029/hedgewars_0.9.17-1_i386.deb