On Saturday 01 February 2003 05:54, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Did anybody try Nethack / Falcon's Eye on SuSE 8.1?
At least two individuals (excluding me) want to see RPMs of Falcon's Eye / Nethack for SuSE 8.1. In response to the demand, I have created RPMs as I said I've would. They are available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28610 . You need two (2) files: nethack_data-3.3.1-0.i686.rpm falconseye-1.9.3-0.i686.rpm Semi-direct Links: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/suserpm/nethack_data-3.3.1-0.i686.rpm?dow... http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/suserpm/falconseye-1.9.3-0.i686.rpm?downl... [If you have APT set up, you will be able to grab them off there in a few hours.] IMPORTANT: You need to install nethack_data -before- falconseye because of the symlink that FE creates. NOTES: You may be thinking "why do I need to install another FE RPM? Can't I use the one from SuSE 8.1?" The answer is two-fold. You can, but SuSE screwed up FE as well as Nethack. From my SF.net release notes: \begin SuSE muffed up the RPMs for Falcon's Eye in SuSE Linux 8.1 on two (2) accounts: 1. Nethack 3.4.0 is packaged with SuSE Linux 8.1, although FE requires version 3.3.1. FE is not even able to start with version 3.4.0 of NH. 2. "/usr/bin/compress" is used to compress the save files by default in FE, and SuSE left it at the default although it does not ship with this utility. Result: unable to save/load -any- NH save files in FE. FE -can- use gzip instead of 'compress' however, which is what I did with a simple patch. \end So, in short, if you want to actually -save- your game in FE, you need my RPM. (Apart from that, my RPM also has the very minor advantage of being compiled with heavy optimizations.) And yes, I'll be sending a nice lengthy email to feedback@suse.com about this... Feedback is very welcome.