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$GNOME_PREFIX
/: share/{{many game
names}, {,omf/}gnome-games, {,help,pixmaps,sound}/{game names},
/var/lib/games
Short Descriptions
See the README
file in the source
tree for a description of each game.
The GNOME Games package contains games. Starting with GNOME-2.8, the background graphics, artwork and themes for the games are supplied in a separate package. You can download the GNOME Games Extra Data package from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-games-extra-data/2.18/.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-games/2.18/gnome-games-2.18.2.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-games/2.18/gnome-games-2.18.2.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c3434a724cd72a536ba48d9187f10697
Download size: 7.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 118 MB
Estimated build time: 1.8 SBU
libgnomeui-2.18.1, GNOME Doc Utils-0.10.3, Gnome-Python-Desktop-2.18.0, and librsvg-2.16.1
intltool-0.35.5, EsounD-0.2.37, Guile-1.8.2 (to
build the AisleRiot solitaire games), and GGZ (to enable network gaming;
see the GNOME Games README
file for
the specific GGZ packages you will need)
See the glchess/README
file for
additional optional dependencies for the chess game.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-games
Some of the GNOME Games game
binaries need to be setgid to track high scores. Create a separate
user and group for games. See the README
file in the source directory for more
information:
install -v -m755 -d /var/lib/games && groupadd -g 60 games && useradd -c 'Games High Score Owner' -d /var/lib/games \ -g games -s /bin/false -u 60 games && chown -v games:games /var/lib/games
Install GNOME Games by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3 \ --localstatedir=/var/lib && make
To test the results, issue make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix
ORBit-2.0)
: Setting the prefix using this parameter
instead of with $GNOME_PREFIX
will
ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation
environment and the package will be installed in the correct
location.
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3
: This
parameter causes the configuration files to be installed in
/etc/gnome/2.18.3
instead of
$GNOME_PREFIX/etc
. Additionally (if
applicable), the parameter ensures that the GConf-2 database is correctly updated.
--localstatedir=/var/lib
:
This parameter is used so that all ScrollKeeper files are installed in, and the
ScrollKeeper database is properly
updated in /var/lib/scrollkeeper
instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper
and also causes
the game programs to use /var/lib/games
as the directory holding the high
score files.
--disable-setgid
: This will prevent the
setgid bit on the executables from being set. It provides system
administrators with the option to disable setgid binaries, though
it also means that the functionality to save high game scores will
be disabled.
$GNOME_PREFIX
/: share/{{many game
names}, {,omf/}gnome-games, {,help,pixmaps,sound}/{game names},
/var/lib/games
See the README
file in the source
tree for a description of each game.
Last updated on 2008-05-09 07:42:27 -0500