Fairy-Max binary distribution for Linux available

[H.G.Muller]

I learned how to make Debian packages, and forged one for Fairy-Max.

It contains three binaries that install in /usr/games/, namely fairymax, shamax and maxqi. The latter two are dedicated versions of Fairy-Max, optimized to play Shatranj and Xiangqi, respectively. A man page for "fairymax" is included. The regular Fairy-Max supports 8 other variants (including normal Chess).

The package can be downloaded from http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairym ... 1_i386.deb (for now).

[Volker Pittlik]

..."i386.deb"...

Of course I get an "wrong architecture" error here on 64 bit Linux. Would it be possible...?

vp

[H.G.Muller]

64-bit Linux cannot handle 32-bit binaries???

Unfortunately I have no 64-bit system. If you can open the package with an archiver, though, the data tar ball in it contains sources in usr/share/doc/fairymax, plus a README file that tells you how compile them.(Quite trivial, as these are single-sorce-file projects.)

[Miguel A. Ballicora]

64-bit Linux cannot handle 32-bit binaries???

Unfortunately I have no 64-bit system. If you can open the package with an archiver, though, the data tar ball in it contains sources in usr/share/doc/fairymax, plus a README file that tells you how compile them.(Quite trivial, as these are single-sorce-file projects.)

According to Ilari:
"Installing the ia32-libs package solves most of these problems."

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 87&t=27107

Miguel

[Ilari Pihlajisto]

..."i386.deb"...

Of course I get an "wrong architecture" error here on 64 bit Linux. Would it be possible...?

vp

Even though 32-bit applications work on 64-bit Linux, your package manager won't normally let you install packages that are meant for i386. So what you can do is force the install by running "sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i package.deb".

[Volker Pittlik]

... "sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i package.deb".

Arrgh, of course you are right. I did that often with other packages. It seems I'm getting to lazy and expect that everything works as expected just by clicking on it.

Thanks for the program.

vp

[H.G.Muller]

Note there is a new version of this package, which fixes an under-promotion bug:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairym ... 2_i386.deb .

[Tuvoc]

It seems I'm getting too lazy and expect that everything works as expected just by clicking on it.

vp

That would be Windows