It's possible to install other things but Neverball and Neverputt is a problem.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/1163...4-Hoary/page2/

I did try
sudo apt-get install neverball

and gives me

vrej@vrej-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install neverball
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package neverball
vrej@vrej-desktop:~$

vrej@vrej-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install neverputt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package neverputt
vrej@vrej-desktop:~$

I downloaded the source code from the site

vrej@vrej-desktop:~/neverball-1.4.0$ make
cc -Wall -O3 -ansi -I/usr/local/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -Ishare -o share/image.o -c share/image.c
share/image.c:16:25: error: SDL/SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from share/image.c:22:
share/image.h:5:21: error: SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from share/image.c:22:
share/image.h:22: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘TTF_Font’
share/image.c:270: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘TTF_Font’
share/image.c: In function ‘make_image_from_font’:
share/image.c:284: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘TTF_RenderText_Blended’
share/image.c:284: error: ‘font’ undeclared (first use in this function)
share/image.c:284: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
share/image.c:284: error: for each function it appears in.)
share/image.c:284: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make: *** [share/image.o] Error 1
vrej@vrej-desktop:~/neverball-1.4.0$


SDL is already installed on my system but I don't have SDL/SDL_ttf.h
Perhaps Neverball source code is too old and the new SDL doesn't need that file anymore.

Anyway, I prefer the binary.

you may have to install some library named SDL_ttf. try and install a version from your package manager or from a binary installer that is built for your linux distribution, before compiling it from source.

Well, looks like I had the rest of SDL but SDL_ttf was missing so apt-get installed that thing.

There are some other things I don't understand. When I run make, there were error messages from several files about

#include <SDL.h>

I had to convert these to

#include <SDL/SDL.h>

and the same goes for the other SDL files. Ok, that minor problem was fixed and compilation works.

I did ./neverball and ./neverputt in the console

./neverball: No available video device

but Doom 3 works fine.
I also have something called pouetchess that I just installed, and this uses GL too I think.
Just that it sucks because it crashes as soon as I move a peice.

not sure what to do about your error with neverball, check the website or their documentation to see how to configure it.

did you enable the correct repositories? neverball and Neverputt show up for me; it seems to be a repo issue.

I haven't changed anything my system. I applied all the updates available today.
This time, I decided to use the GUI to install Neverball, using th Add/Remove program thing and it worked.
By default, Add/Remove doesn't show Neverball so doing a search did the trick.

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