Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tux math 's commands doesn't work on Asus eee.

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Hi Ina,

If you actually have the very old 1.0.1, maybe the problem is just that you 
need to press 'Escape' to leave the Options screen and actually play the 
game.  IIRC, that wasn't intuitively obvious and was something that got 
changed a long time ago.  The current version (1.6.1) is way better.

As Tim said, you can find out by typing "tuxmath --version" from a command 
prompt.


> 2. If you're brave,

I think "brave" overstates what is involved ;-)

> First check to see
> if it's likely to work by going to the command line and
> typing "automake --version". If the first line says something like
>   automake (GNU automake) 1.10

You don't need automake or autoconf to build from the *tar.gz package.

You will need the SDL-dev libs, which you can get using the Debian package 
manager since Xandros based on Debian. 

First become root (type "su", then the root password when prompted).

Then type: (all on the same line, don't hit "enter" until the end)

apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdlmixer1.2-dev 
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

and if you're connected to the internet, your machine should download and 
install the needed libs.  Pretty cool, eh?

Then you can build the package like Tim suggested:

> then type the following commands (from the command line):
>         tar -xzf tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1-tar.gz
>         cd tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install  (you might need "su" or "sudo" for this)


(P.S. - If you really are adventurous, you could edit 
your /etc/apt/sources.list and add a line for current Debian packages - if 
your system is based on Sarge, there are probably newer versions of almost 
everything available, but be prepared for some breakage if you do a massive 
system upgrade)


Cheers,

-- 
David Bruce