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| From: | motiv4u |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnubg] help with ubuntu installation |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Feb 2015 02:23:06 +0100 |
On 2015-02-16 12:48 PM, Jack Stroube wrote:
> I downloaded most of the development packages but I do not know how to
> "change to the directory containing the gnubg source".
>
> Without that step, I can not start installation.
>
Jon is correct you should be able to install the binaries from the GUI
package manager or from the command line with:
sudo apt-get install gnubg
If you are using Ubuntu 14.10 then you may experience a crash just as
you start playing. This is a known issue in Ubuntu 14.10 (not sure what
Ununtu release you are using). Building from the latest source should
rectify that problem. Below is a set of instructions for building on
Ubuntu (or Debian) distros).
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This applies specifically to Debian based systems, although the portion
starting from creating the build directory should apply in most *nix
environments.
First one must get all the pre-requisites to build GNUBG. If using
Ubuntu/Kubuntu or other Ubuntu derivatives issue this command (You will
be prompted for the root password)
sudo apt-get build-dep gnubg
sudo apt-get install cvs
On other Debian systems where sudo usage isn't the default usage
pattern, you have to log in as root first OR issue the command:
su - (you will be prompted for the root password)
then:
apt-get build-dep gnubg
apt-get install cvs
Once you have all the build dependencies you can build as a normal
unprivileged user or root. To do so create a directory to perform builds
under. For instance to build in your home account under a directory
called "builds" you can issue this command:
cd ~
mkdir builds
cd builds
Once you change into the "builds" (cd builds) directory you want to pull
out all the latest code from the CVS repository. That can easily be
accomplished with this task:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnubg co gnubg
It may take a little while to take out all the latest code (depending on
connection speed). Once completed you will now see that a new
subdirectory exists called "gnubg"
Change into the gnubg subdirectory with:
cd gnubg
Okay, we are now ready to setup the build environment. First thing after
pulling files out of CVS is to issue this command:
./autogen.sh
This command only really needs to be done after you have just pulled
from CVS. Next we need to configure GNUBG to build on our system. We do
so with this command:
CFLAGS="-O3" ./configure
This command has recently been defaulted to build thread-enabled code
(allow multiple processors to be used by GNUBG), should auto detect
SSE/SSE2 now, and if you did the apt-get's above all the libraries
needed for 3D Board Support should also enable 3D support by default. In
the past ./configure usually required other parameters. The CFLAGS bit
is optional but this uses more aggressive optimizations. You can
configure with standard settings (if you so desire - although i
recommend the version above) with:
./configure
Issuing configure will cause a bunch of lines to fly past, and usually
the last line on a successful configure will be "config.status:
executing default-1 commands"
Okay now you can make the code with the configured environment:
make
If there are no errors it should spend time building the bearoff
databases the first time things are made with "make". Okay, well one
last step. You can install a successful build with this (you will need
root privs for this to be successful) that cna be used by all users on
the system:
If using Ubuntu/Kubuntu or other Ubuntu derivatives issue this command
(You may be prompted for the root password)
sudo make install
On other Debian systems where sudo usage isn't the default usage
pattern, you have to log in as root first OR issue the command:
su - (you will be prompted for the root password)
then
make install
Okay, a normal ./configure process puts GNUBG under /usr/local . This
means the GNUBG executable is /usr/local/bin/gnubg . From the command
line you can issue:
/usr/local/bin/gnubg
The /usr/local directory will not interfere with other Debian software.
So this will not overwrite the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Debian version that is
installed by apt/synaptic or aptitude. You can create a short cut on
your desktop that launches with this command:
/usr/local/bin/gnubg -w
The "-w" is usually important when running from the desktop so that it
suppresses the terminal output. Failure to do this with desktop/menu
shortcuts can lead to GNUBG not loading properly.
--
Michael Petch
GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer
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