Bridge game on Mint?

[DrHu]

I installed "Deal","Dealer",and "Floater" Bridge games for my wife to use but have not been able to access/run them on Mint. These games are not listed on the Mint site or Mintinstall but I found them on Synaptic. I am not sure, but when I deleted these games after finding I could not run them

Synaptic or Package Manager on the Mint menu is what to use to find packages/applications in the repositories (it includes Ubuntu locations/repositories)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=364188
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-376652.html

finding I could not run them
Why, did they not show up on the menus under All>Games
--floater is an internet game, the others generate bridge hands are are basically training guides for playersI

I synaptic (Package Manager) right click>Properties>installed files to locate executable, usually /usr/bin or /bin location
I tried deal, does not run
I tried dealer, checked as above the location is /usr/games, doesn't work
Uninstalling (mark for complete removal in synaptic) deal and dealer caused no mint menu problems
--under synaptic; you can always check what will be removed, however if there are no extras added under the right-click >properties for the application, it is unlikely to be removing anything but that application (game)
I didn't bother with floater, as it runs with java
I also did not restart or logout from the desktop, some applications need that refresh to appear on the menus..

Other bridge card game..
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-EN ... 5298.shtml
--you could install the pybrige-server for local play rather than use the internet..
--available in synaptic..

[DrHu]

If these programs should have shown up in games, can some give me any reason why they did not and preferably a way to achieve this result. This is actually the reason for my post.

How the game install is scripted prevents it from showing in the distributions' menus, perhaps the developer can't be bothered figuring out how to work with Gnome (2x, 3x) or KDE (3x, 4x) or any other window/desktop manager

As to how to enable the game,, if it can run from its own directory/folder as the logged in user, just creat a menu item, use a game that does install as a template to what needs to be in the various selections for the Launcher that will execute the game application..

As an example, here is sauerbraten game screenshot>properties of the Mint menu
--you right-click the Mint menu>Edit menu, which gets you most of the menus (at least the ones you can edit with the gui)
where you add the menu is the location that the menu will be added, so for example add new item under games adds it there..

Check the mint 7 user guide for menu editing..
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15884753/Linu ... User-Guide
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/ ... nglish.pdf
--not sure editing the menus is in there or using the launcher, but it is a start, and then there is always Gnome documrnation for additional info..

[pluraldave]

Deal literally generates a hand. It doesn't have a menu item because it's command line only. You type "deal" and soemthing like this pops up for each of the 4 positions:

♠ T52
♥ 86
♦ KQT863
♣ 75

It's really not a game.
I assume dealer does something similar although it just hangs...

[DrHu]

I don't know how you get it to play/generate a game (new table sets up the bridge table, but then what?..
--I would probably try the online connection first to find out how it plays the game, and maybe askl for help to play locally with the pybridge server console

It doesn't seem to work very well, that is it does setup a game for you, just allows you to connect to a server

pybridge-server
After starting pybridge-server on the console (terminal)
2009-06-27 04:57:04-0400 [-] Log opened.
2009-06-27 04:57:04-0400 [-] Connection to sqlite database succeeded
2009-06-27 04:57:04-0400 [-] twisted.spread.pb.PBServerFactory starting on 5040
2009-06-27 04:57:04-0400 [-] Starting factory <twisted.spread.pb.PBServerFactory

In any case, this is how it it is done locally using the pybridge-server (allows a console interface to connect to

• Install pybridge-server
• In terminal, execute pybridge-server
  --this starts the local pybridge server
• in Mint menu>games>PyBridge
  --this starts the client connection, when the dialog pops up, enter a your host name (whatever you called the computer when you installed Linux mint)
  --name, password, ignore the port it will be available
  --register as a new user
  this gets you connected as the user you named
  Enter new table, this gets you the bridge table, start exploring..

I didn't go this far, but maybe you need more than one player, you could setup multiple player names to test
--in which case you don't get any computer partners to play

There are some windows bridge games under wine that will do this ( computer players vs yourself..)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-376652.html
--same question you have..
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/13285
http://gnubridge.org/