Anyone know where and how to get the game pente for mandriva?

JBailey742 · 07-07-2007, 09:15 PM

I remembered playing a game on mandrake, can't remember the version, 8.2, 9.1 or 10.1. The game is Pente (not sure what it was called in the distro).
I can't seem to find that game anymore, and I sure would love to play it.
Anyone know any way of finding this and getting this to work under mandriva 2007.1 spring?

jschiwal · 07-07-2007, 10:08 PM

You have a long memory it seems. I don't know if this will install. It's from Mandrake 8.2
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

JBailey742 · 07-07-2007, 11:41 PM

dang. that's the site I found but it didn't work. It seems to only work for mandrake 8.0 through 8.2.
So it's quite obvious that it was 8.2 that had it. At least that's the distro I must have had it on.
That was my first linux distro too.
I remember losing and hearing the audio of guys laughing at me.
I thought, that seemed a little cruel, but then again, it seems more personal and "down to earth?" maybe. not so uptight like Microsoft.
sorry, was reminiscencing.

jschiwal · 07-08-2007, 01:42 AM

I was able to install and run the mdk package on my SuSE 10.2 (x86_64) distro. I just needed to install 2 packages, containing 32bit versions of libraries. (termcap-32bit & gpm-32bit). Unfortunately, that version is compiled with the sound turned off, so you may need to install the source package and rebuild the package.

JBailey742 · 07-08-2007, 10:05 AM

someone on the mandriva forum is suggesting this "rebuilding" as well. thing is, I'm still new in areas on linux. Granted, I'm learning more, but still new in areas.
He gave me a site that explains how, but in there, it says if done wrong, it can be very dangerous or something.
that's all I need, a noob doing something dangerous lol.

jschiwal · 07-08-2007, 06:37 PM

Download the source package under your home directory where you have full rights, and only run the "make install" phase as root. Then you should be OK. You may need to install the *-devel versions of your present dependencies. They contain the headers of the libraries that you installed. For example, one of the dependencies was the gpm package. This gave you the libgpm library. If you install from source, you may need to install a gpm-devel package as well. It contains the source and header files for libgpm. You may need the later.

JBailey742 · 07-15-2007, 12:28 AM

good news, a site admin has placed the game in the contrib backports.
thanks for your time.