Also among all the other answers you can always install wine in that
machine and the just run the solitaire game your relative wants to play if
it's just a solitaire game it should not be a problem.

El 18/7/2016 10:21 a. m., "pereira" <[email protected]> escribió:

> Your grandfather, who may be the same age as I am, should be able to
> find the games in two ways.
>
> One is to go to the window manager, select 'games' and click on Aisleriot.
>
> The other, less in the windows style but more like an xubuntu person would
> want to do it,
> is to open a terminal, perhaps with control-althernate-t), or again through
> the window manager (under accessories --> terminal emulator), and then
> look what all is
> available by typing:
>
> ls /usr/games
>
> On my system I have lots of possible games, 71 in fact. The one that gives
> me freecell is 'sol'.
>
> Next he should type is:  ls -l /usr/games/sol
>
> He should see something like
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281904 Mar 10  2014 /usr/games/sol
>
> Then he simply types 'sol'; if his system is set up te same as mine, it
> should bring up all the
> Aisleriot games including freecell. Mine already starts with freecell.
>
> Maybe his system is set up slightly differently. He might have to type
> ./sol
>
> or maybe even
>
> /usr/games/sol.
>
> Wish him bonne chance. Freecell is my favorite game too
>
> Nino
>
> On 07/18/2016 05:40 AM, Patrice ARNAL wrote:
>
>> Le 11/07/2016 16:19, Char a écrit :
>>
>>> My dad just bought a used laptop w/your operating system. However, all
>>> he does is play ultimate solitaire. But that is a Window CD/game. What is
>>> the closest solitaire game in you system yo theirs. Plz advise. Thx
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> IMHO : Solitaire Aisle Riot
>>
>>
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