[gentoo-user] Re: Backgammon (GNU) anybody

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2015-06-11, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> has anybody any luck in running  games-board/gnubg ?

Not recently (within the past year or so), but I played it on and off
for a few years before that.  I don't remember if I used an ebuild or
just installed from CVS sources.

> The installation proceeded just fine, but when I start it, it hangs,
> i.e. it takes 100% CPU and has to be killed after half an hour.
>
> Has anybody more luck?

IIRC, it uses a couple bearoff databases.  I vaguely remember
downloading and installing pre-built bearoff databases when I
installed gnubg a few years ago, but I don't see anyting about doing
that in the current gnubg docs, and there's a vague reference that
implies it might not need those anymore:

 http://www.gnubg.org/documentation/doku.php?id=gnu_backgammon_faq#54

      Databases
      ---------------
      
      What is the Database' menu for?

      Go find a newer build if you still have the database.

You don't see any messages about missing files (either bearoff
databases or neural-net weightings)?

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