No nethack GUI anymore!

[Guest]

After a few years without playing I tried to install my favourite nethack interface (qt), just to see it missing.
Well there are more, I thought, but alas, not one graphical interface is working with kubuntu 13.04.
No qt, vulture, ebonhack, no nothing.

So is there a way to get nethack-qt working? Linux without nethack is not really linux.
Right now the only solution that comes to mind would be to install debian.

[Snowhog]

I have no knowledge of Nethack, but you might want to check out:

http://www.nethack.org/v343/ports/download-linux.html

[Guest]

I have no knowledge of Nethack, but you might want to check out:

http://www.nethack.org/v343/ports/download-linux.html

Oh, I should probably added that I have already downloaded the files separately, but they won't work because of unfullfilled dependancies. When I tried to work them out by hand I landed in dependancy hell. No way for me out of there without screwing up the whole system, someone of more refined linux skills is needed for this task.
Since nethack is somewhat popular I thought maybe one of you has already solved this problem and can give me some clues how to procede.

[Guest]

I likewise am saddened by the lack of nethack-qt in the kubuntu repositories.

The x11 and console interfaces are unusable for me.

On the other hand - nethack is a terrible time waster, maybe it's a good thing that it's missing.

[Rog132]

Testing quickly...

Abandon hope all ye who enter here...

Qt

http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Qt :

NetHack offers an interface based on Qt, compatible with Qt through version 3. It is not compatible with Qt 4, which is the current version, nor with the forthcoming Qt 5...

Downloading from the Debian squeeze: nethack-qt: http://packages.debian.org/search?ke...ll&section=all

It is also available from the Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

Simulating:

:~$ apt-get install -s nethack-qt

NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nethack-qt : Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8b) but it is not installable
Depends: nethack-common (= 3.4.3-12.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The libqt3-mt is available: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libqt3-mt
Dowloading it from the Precise

Downloading the nethack-common (= 3.4.3-12.1) from the Debian.

Simulating:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nethack-qt : Depends: nethack-common (= 3.4.3-12.1) but 3.4.3-14 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Pinning: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

=> Making file: /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning
It has:

Package: nethack-common
Pin: version 3.4.3-12.1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Updating the package database:

sudo apt-get update

Policy has:

:~$ apt-cache policy

Pinned packages:
...
nethack-common -> 3.4.3-12.1
...

Installing:

Log of sudo apt-get install nethack-qt
Sun Sep 29 14:36:54 2013

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...

The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt3-mt nethack-common
Suggested packages:
libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt3-mt nethack-common nethack-qt
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/4,846 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]

Seems to work...




With the QApt package installer (not tested):

1. install the libqt3-mt
2. pin the nethack-common version
3. install the nethack-common
4. install the nethack-qt




Vulture

http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Vulture
http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture

Downloading:
vulture-data_2.3.67-1_all.deb
vulture-nethack_2.3.67-1_amd64.deb


Installing:

Log of sudo apt-get install vulture-nethack
Sun Sep 29 13:39:59 2013

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...

The following extra packages will be installed:
libmikmod2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 vulture-data
Suggested packages:
pulseaudio-esound-compat oss-compat
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmikmod2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 vulture-data vulture-nethack
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 259 kB/27.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 35.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]

The Vulture only needs the vulture-nethack & vulture-data. Other packages are from the standard Ubuntu Raring repositories.

Seems to work...



With the QApt package installer (not tested):

1. install the vulture-data
2. install the vulture-nethack

not one graphical interface is working with kubuntu 13.04.
No qt, vulture, ebonhack, no nothing.

What is the problem - error message ?

[GreyGeek]

Like I used to tell my physics students -- "Everything is easy once you know how!"

[Buddlespit]

OMG, that IS a time waster!