-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/22/11 3:23 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Dr H: > > So, what you're saying is, "it's complicated, very complicated . . . ." > : - ) > > I'm away from the one computer that has more packages installed, but I > tried the "metacity --replace &" on an X11 window and it said "metacity > command not found" . . . so I'll have to try that on the other computer. >
You'd have to install metacity first. > "Pick something interesting, and I'll tell you how to do it." Well, > as you may remember I was looking for a way to keep an up to date > browser going with the ever aging PPC, but that doesn't seem viable > using Unix as the support seems to be moving away there and only older > browsers are available anyway. So, choice two would be chess, and > "crafty" is supposed to be a "strong" player. What would I need to > download and install and then what commands would I use to play a Unix > game of crafty chess in the PPC? Or would crafty just be the engine and > I'd have to have another GUI chessboard to use it? But, let's say, how > to get from "fink install crafty" to then play a game of unix chess? > Do I need other commands to get fink to install a whole game package and > then how to get the chess board and engine to show up and play on? > > F > http://surfingthetimelesswave.net > According to the package description for crafty: $ fink desc crafty Scanning package description files.......... Information about 9929 packages read in 2 seconds. crafty-22.8-1: Strong Chess Engine Crafty is a chess engine that allows you to play chess either via the console or through XBoard. . Web site: ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ . Maintainer: Matthias Neeracher <[email protected]> If you install xboard, it gives you a choice of engines: (1) crafty: Strong Chess Engine (2) gnuchess: GNU Chess (3) sjeng: Engine for Chess Variants and picking crafty will result in the installation of crafty, xboard, and any dependencies. Except that one of the source files for crafty has gone missing; curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.29.99.cvs' -O ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/pgn/start.pgn.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 curl: (78) RETR response: 550 ### execution of curl failed, exit code 78 Downloading the file "start.pgn.gz" failed. (1) Give up (2) Retry the same mirror That's something for the maintainer to fix, so selecting one of the other engines would be in order. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk20KY4ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8ykgCfTvpNYM4+q8oxiKVeSVZtuaZy YX0Ani0cM7wFWrDdIWN6ou+1UHRd3EoS =mFmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
