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

[Bill Kendrick]

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!