[NBLUG/talk] Risk and Cribbage for Linux (was re: just a generalquestion this time)

[Rassilon]

Wow!  You rock!

Thanks!

-Rassilon...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kendrick" <nbs at sonic.net>
To: "NBLUG talk" <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:19 AM
Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Risk and Cribbage for Linux (was re: just a 
generalquestion this time)


> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:43:49AM -0700, rassilon wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there are versions of Risk or Cribbage for Ubuntu
>> Linux?
>
> Fire up your favorite package manager.  In Kubuntu, it'd be Adept.
> Or, use a command-line tool, like "apt-cache", or "aptitude", with the
> 'search' option.
>
> For example:
>
>  $ aptitude search risk
>  ...
>  p   xfrisk                 - Server and X11 client for playing risk 
> wit...
>
> Sounds promising.  Let's investigage:
>
>
>  $ aptitude show xfrisk
>
>  Package: xfrisk
>  New: yes
>  State: not installed
>  Version: 1.2-2.1
>  Priority: optional
>  Section: universe/games
>  Maintainer: Joe Nahmias <jello at debian.org>
>  ...
>  Description: Server and X11 client for playing risk with humans or AIs
>   Risk is a board game played on a map of the world.  You control a group 
> of
>   armies and attempt to capture large sections of the world and try to 
> stop
>   your opponents from doing the same thing.  You can also choose to play
>   with a mission that you have to accomplish before your opponents do.
>
>   xfrisk allows you to play risk against other players over TCP/IP and
>   includes 3 different AI players.
>
>
> One down, one to go! :^)
>
>  $ aptitude search cribbage
>  $
>
> Huh, nothing.  Let's try a search in the descriptions, too, not just the
> names:
>
>  $ aptitude search ~dcribbage
>  i   bsdgames                 - a collection of classic textual unix games
>  $
>
> Blah, you probably didn't want a text-based game.
> Don't fret, let's try a few other places online!
>
>
>  The Linux Game Tome
>  http://www.happypenguin.org/
>
>   -and-
>
>  Fresh Meat
>  http://www.freshmeat.net/
>
>    ...both found:
>
>    * Kards GT
>      http://kardsgt.nongnu.org/
>
>
>  SourceForge
>  http://www.sourceforge.net/
>
>    ...found two projects with no activity or downloads :^(
>
>    * Kribbage  (nothing to download yet)
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/kribbage/
>
>    * Cribbage  (nothing to download yet)
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/cribbage/
>
>
>  Google web search
>  http://www.google.com/
>
>    ...found
>
>    * Cribbage Freeware  (for Windows, claims to work with Wine)
>      http://www.rpi.edu/~desimn/cribbage/index.html
>
>
> See how easy it is to find this stuff yourself?
> But seriously, I hope that helps!
>
> (You now have fish, AND know how to fish!) ;^)
>
>
> -- 
> -bill!
> bill at newbreedsoftware.com
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
>
> PS - "Just a general question" is kind of a useless subject line, btw!
>
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