From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 6 20:14:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05883 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.axess.com (root@mail.axess.com [204.19.206.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05858 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ppawel@axess.com) Received: from my.domain (ppp-71.axess.com [204.19.207.71]) by mail.axess.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with ESMTP id XAA29155; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:22:50 -0400 Received: (from ppawel@localhost) by my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10940; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:56:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ppawel) Message-ID: <19980706225645.A10918@axess.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:56:45 -0400 From: "Peter D. Pawelek" To: Sue Blake , Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nethack References: <19980706062142.09447@welearn.com.au> <19980705193555.A2497@axess.com> <19980706100424.64956@welearn.com.au> <19980705210908.A2609@axess.com> <19980707000842.25413@nothing-going-on.org> <19980707094242.15217@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <19980707094242.15217@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:42:42AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting Sue Blake (sue@welearn.com.au): > > Clearly I'm not :-( I tried installing it last night and... well... when > I cheer up I might tell the tale of woe. > > I've got nethack-3.2.2.tgz and nethack-qt-3.2.2.tgz here, and this qt > business means nothing at all to me. Is one the X version or what?? > Yes, the qt version is for X and it requires that the qt libraries have already been installed. The qt libraries provide a lot of gui objects and other X graphical elements for programs written to use them; be- sides nethack-qt, KDE was written with the qt libraries. Anyway, I digress. I just installed nethack-qt on my FreeBSD box to see if it would work (on my girlfriends machine it was installed as a package during the initial CDROM install (the non-qt version, that is)) and I didn't have any problems. What I did was to first install the qt port followed by the nethack-qt port; the nethack-qt port pulled down a few other programs, so I wonder if this is where you had your problem (ie. did you try to install it as a package?). The install went flawlessly and I just finished a bit of hacking and slashing to make sure everything was alright. ;) Personally, I'd recommend installing the NON-qt version of nethack in- stead. This is the original console mode version (it will run in an xterm as well) in all of its ASCII glory. The qt version adds a lot of pretty tiled graphics, but it just doesnt *feel* right to me. :) If you want a flawless install as well, try installing as a port whilst connected to the net so that the port can pull down whatever other files it needs. As well, nethack-qt seemed to want to use gmake, so I'd recommend making sure that you have gmake installed as well (it's available as a port/package). If all else fails, try installing angband which is a nethack clone (I would probably get crucified by some angband fans for saying that) set in the Tolkien universe (/usr/ports/games/angband). It's pretty good as well. Hope this helps! Peter (ppawel@axess.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message