The Potatoman Game

[fossiili]

When my grandchildren come to visit me, they are keen on the games I have in my computer. They liked very much the game Potatoman I ones had in some Linux.

Unfortunately I have not found how to install it to Fedora Core 6 I recently have as my only Linux. "yum search potato* does not find anything. Where is Potatoman :confused:

[JonC]

We believe it is under one of the KDE games packages. We will look into it and confirm which one for you.

[JonC]

Yep, it is in the kdegames package.

yum install kdegames should do you

[sideways]

also try childsplay, pretty simplistic but easy to play games for very young children

yum install childsplay

(btw the Potato Guy game is called ktuberling, but you should lauch it from Apllications->Games menu to get the correct title)

[JN4OldSchool]

I have one called "potato guy" I think that is what he is talking about. A Mr. potato head simple paste the parts game. That nose on the far left can be rather unfortunate...

edit: sorry sideways, you are right, I went under help to find the real name. I didnt know tux and that aquarium were in there either. One that my 2 young un's really like is Tux Typing.

[fossiili]

I installed kdegames and childsplay. I got a nice list of games :)

but unfortunately there is neither "ktuberling" nor "Potato Guy" nor anything about potatoes in the Games menu :mad:

[rpstitz]

the game in question is KTuberling, written by Eric Bischoff. It is standard in KDE 3.x and if you want to add a link to it, use this info in the KDE Menu Editor:
Name: Potato Guy
Discription: A game for children
Command: ktuberling %i %m -caption "%c" %u
the checkbox for enable launch feedback should probably be checked (it is on mine) but I don't really know what that does.
The icon should be located in 'system' named ktuberling.

[Wayne]

I don't use KDE but it should be there, maybe it's somehow not been added to the menu. Is there a menu editor in KDE? Maybe it's mistakenly disabled there.

http://games.kde.org/kde_kids.php

Wayne

[fossiili]

the game in question is KTuberling
KTuberling is not in my Games menu with the many KDE-games succesfully installed. Neither can it be found from:
[root@localhost fossiili]# KTuberling
bash: KTuberling: command not found
[root@localhost fossiili]#

Googling I found that as a binary it may excist for Debien relatives (I had it early when I had Ubuntu) and Gentoo also. That could be a good reason to at last trying to install Gentoo :eek:

[Wayne]

Try the command all lower case. It's definitely there, I just checked the package contents!

Edit: Games and gaming libraries for the K Desktop Environment. Included with this package are: kenolaba, kasteroids, kblackbox, kmahjongg, kmines, konquest, kpat, kpoker, kreversi, ksame, kshisen, ksmiletris, ksnake, ksirtet, katomic, kjumpingcube, ktuberling.

Wayne

[ilja]

try to do

[ilja@noname ~]$ ktuberling

It's definetelly there.

[fossiili]

I don't use KDE
In my Fedora Core 6 I have Gnome and XFCE - desktops only.

[sideways]

If you did yum install kdegames

Then "Potato Guy" should be in gnome's Applications>Games menu.
From the command line you can launch it with 'ktuberling'

[Wayne]

In my Fedora Core 6 I have Gnome and XFCE - desktops only.

It shouldn't make a difference. When you install kdegames it will install kdelibs and maybe one or two more dependencies automatically. Whether the games get added to the Gnome menu is something I can't answer as I won't use any KDE stuff in my Gnome desktop :D

Wayne

[ilja]

It shouldn't make a difference. When you install kdegames it will install kdelibs and maybe one or two more dependencies automatically. Whether the games get added to the Gnome menu is something I can't answer as I won't use any KDE stuff in my Gnome desktop :D

Wayne
answer enough ? :D

[fossiili]

[ilja@noname ~]$ ktuberling


Thank you :)

It opens, but some strange error messages :confused:
[fossiili@localhost ~]$ ktuberling
Could not load library! Trying exec....
kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 5454 result = 0
DCOP: register 'anonymous-5454' -> number of clients is now 1
kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 5458 result = 0
DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-5454'
DCOP: register 'klauncher' -> number of clients is now 1
DCOP: new daemon klauncher
kdeinit: opened connection to :0.0
Could not load library! Trying exec....
kdeinit: Launched KDED, pid = 5459 result = 0
DCOP: register 'kded' -> number of clients is now 1
DCOP: unregister 'kded'
DCOP: register 'kded' -> number of clients is now 1
DCOP: register 'anonymous-5459' -> number of clients is now 2
kdeinit: Got EXT_EXEC 'kbuildsycoca' from launcher.
Could not load library! Trying exec....
DCOP: register 'kbuildsycoca' -> number of clients is now 3
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP: register 'anonymous-5461' -> number of clients is now 4
DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-5461'
DCOP: unregister 'kbuildsycoca'
kdeinit: PID 5461 terminated.
kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'kconf_update' from launcher.
Could not load library! Trying exec....
kdeinit: PID 5462 terminated.
DCOP: new daemon kded
DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-5459'
kdeinit: PID 5459 terminated.
DCOP: register 'ktuberling-5451' -> number of clients is now 1