How to install Vulture's Eye in Ubuntu 10.10

UPDATE:  This should work also for Ubuntu 11.04. Please let me know if it doesn't.

Here's a guide to installing and playing nethack with isometric tiles.

1. Download the latest source code here. It is a 7z compressed archive.

2. Open a terminal and install the 7-zip utilities

$ sudo apt-get install p7zip

3. Install the dpkg-dev package.  This is needed to build a .deb package from the vulture's eye source code that you have downloaded earlier.  Just answer "Y" when prompted.

3. Install other essential packages for building this game.  Expect a download of 18Mb.

$ sudo apt-get install debhelper libsdl1.2-dev libncurses5-dev bison flex libpng12-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

4. Extract the game source code and put in your home directory, i.e. /home/valman

5. Go to the source directory and run the patch provided by the game developers.

$ patch -Np1 -i dist/linux/debian/debian.patch

6. Now, still in the game source directory, let's build the package!  Expect to wait for a few minutes while your computer compiles the C++ code.

$ sudo dpkg-buildpackage

7. Now, go to your main downloads directory where you saved the file downloaded in Step 1.  You should see a listing of .deb packages there.

8. Install the game data package

$ sudo gdebi vultures-data_2.1.90-1_all.deb

9. Install the game package (same as above)

$ sudo gdebi vultureseye_2.1.90-1_i386.deb

10. Play the game! It's the Applications > Games > Vulture's Eye

Have fun!!


//ValMan