How to Install and play Games from Terminal - Part 1

To play myman game

Myman is similar to pacman clone game. It is the most popular arcade game.
Install the following packages, before installing the Myman game.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install libncurses5-dev groff
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version (6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1).
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  groff psutils
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 142 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,345 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Selecting previously unselected package psutils.
Preparing to unpack .../psutils_1.17.dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking psutils (1.17.dfsg-2) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.1.0.dfsg.1-5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up groff (1.22.3-7) ...
Setting up psutils (1.17.dfsg-2) ...

Download the package for the game as shown below.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/myman/myman-cvs/myman-cvs-2009-10-30/myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz
--2016-07-14 02:51:12--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/myman/myman-cvs/myman-cvs-2009-10-30/myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/myman/myman-cvs/myman-cvs-2009-10-30/myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz [following]
--2016-07-14 02:51:13--  http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/myman/myman-cvs/myman-cvs-2009-10-30/myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz
Resolving jaist.dl.sourceforge.net (jaist.dl.sourceforge.net)... 150.65.7.130, 2001:df0:2ed:feed::feed
Connecting to jaist.dl.sourceforge.net (jaist.dl.sourceforge.net)|150.65.7.130|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1192321 (1.1M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘ myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz’ 

myman-wip-2009-10-3 100%[===================> ]   1.14M   243KB/s    in 5.5s    

2016-07-14 02:51:19 (211 KB/s) - ‘ myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz’  saved [1192321/1192321]

Extract the downloaded package.

root@linuxhelp1:~# ls
alexdantas-yetris-a4a11e3.tar.gz  Downloads                    Pictures
alexdantas-yetris-cf3fee6         examples.desktop             Public
Desktop                           Music                        Templates
Documents                         myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz  Videos
root@linuxhelp1:~# tar -xzf myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz

After extracting move to the newly created directory.

root@linuxhelp1:~# ls
alexdantas-yetris-a4a11e3.tar.gz  examples.desktop             Public
alexdantas-yetris-cf3fee6         Music                        Templates
Desktop                           myman-wip-2009-10-30         Videos
Documents                         myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz
Downloads                         Pictures

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd myman-wip-2009-10-30/

Run the following commands to install the game.

root@linuxhelp1:~/myman-wip-2009-10-30# ./configure
creating config.status... done.
creating makefile.cp... done.
creating GNUmakefile... done.

root@linuxhelp1:~/myman-wip-2009-10-30# make
creating directory obj/
gcc -g -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H=1 -Iinc -I. -Imygetopt -o obj/_sanity0.o -c obj/_sanity0.c
gcc -g -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H=1 -Iinc -I. -Imygetopt -o obj/_sanity1.o -c obj/_sanity1.c
your compiler appears to work, so creating obj/compiler.ok
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creating myman.command from utl/mymancmd.in
chmod 755 myman.command
creating myman.6 from src/myman.man
creating myman.txt from myman.6
creating myman.ps from myman.6
creating myman.dvi from myman.6
creating myman.html from myman.6

root@linuxhelp1:~/myman-wip-2009-10-30# make install
creating directory /usr/local/share/doc
creating directory /usr/local/share/man/man6
creating directory /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1
creating directory /usr/local/share/doc/myman-0.7.1
creating directory /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/lvl
creating directory /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/chr
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installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/spr4b.txt
installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/spr4b.txt
installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/spr4hb.txt
installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/spr4hb.txt
installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/ott10.txt
installing sprite file /usr/local/share/myman-0.7.1/spr/rogues.txt
updated whatis database for /usr/local/share/man

Run the following command to open the game.

root@linuxhelp1:~/myman-wip-2009-10-30# myman

To play moon-buggy

moon-buggy is an arcaded
Run the following command to download the package.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget http://m.seehuhn.de/programs/moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz
--2016-07-14 03:04:07--  http://m.seehuhn.de/programs/moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz
Resolving m.seehuhn.de (m.seehuhn.de)... 213.138.100.165, 2001:41c8:51:a5::165
Connecting to m.seehuhn.de (m.seehuhn.de)|213.138.100.165|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 263572 (257K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz’ 

moon-buggy-1.0.51.t 100%[===================> ] 257.39K   190KB/s    in 1.4s    

2016-07-14 03:04:09 (190 KB/s) - ‘ moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz’  saved [263572/263572]

root@linuxhelp1:~# ls
alexdantas-yetris-a4a11e3.tar.gz  examples.desktop             Pictures
alexdantas-yetris-cf3fee6         moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz     Public
Desktop                           Music                        Templates
Documents                         myman-wip-2009-10-30         Videos
Downloads                         myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded package.

root@linuxhelp1:~# tar -xzf moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz
root@linuxhelp1:~# ls
alexdantas-yetris-a4a11e3.tar.gz  Music
alexdantas-yetris-cf3fee6         myman-wip-2009-10-30
Desktop                           myman-wip-2009-10-30.tar.gz
Documents                         Pictures
Downloads                         Public
examples.desktop                  Templates
moon-buggy-1.0.51                 Videos
moon-buggy-1.0.51.tar.gz

Run the following commands to install the game.

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd moon-buggy-1.0.51/
root@linuxhelp1:~/moon-buggy-1.0.51# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking for ftruncate... yes
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for setreuid... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

root@linuxhelp1:~/moon-buggy-1.0.51# make
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g -O2 -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF " .deps/main.Tpo"  -c -o main.o main.c  
then mv -f " .deps/main.Tpo"  " .deps/main.Po"   else rm -f " .deps/main.Tpo"   exit 1  fi
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g -O2 -MT mode.o -MD -MP -MF " .deps/mode
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sed " s:@MBBINDIR@:/usr/local/bin:g 
    s:@MBSCORE@:/usr/local/com/moon-buggy:g 
    s:@C@::g 
    s:@MBVERS@:1.0.51:g"  ./manpage.in > > moon-buggy.6
make[1]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51
root@linuxhelp1:~/moon-buggy-1.0.51# make install
make  install-am
make[1]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 
make[2]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 
test -z " /usr/local/bin"  || mkdir -p -- " /usr/local/bin" 
  /usr/bin/install -c ' moon-buggy'  ' /usr/local/bin/moon-buggy' 
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/usr/local/bin/moon-buggy -c
make[3]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 
make[2]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 
make[1]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/moon-buggy-1.0.51' 

To play moon-buggy run the below command.

root@linuxhelp1:~/moon-buggy-1.0.51# moon-buggy