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

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

On 2015-06-11, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I got curious and just did "emerge -av gnubg". It compiled and
installed fine, and it seems to work.  When invoked from the command
line I see this:

   $ gnubg
   GNU Backgammon 1.04.000  Jun 11 2015
   Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
   Copyright (C) 2014 by Gary Wong and the AUTHORS; for details type show version'.
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type show warranty'.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
   certain conditions; type show copying' for details.
   (No game) set gui showids on
   (No game) save settings
   (No game) 

And then the GUI board displays as it should.

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