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West Swan

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Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 6

Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Hello,

I have the 32Bit version of Q4OS running on a 2006 Dell Inspiron 1300

1.7 Ghz Pentium M CPU
60Gb IDE hard drive
A massive 2Gb of memory :-)

In Konsole I am trying to install the Debian Games Light package.  This is some of the top Debian based games that don't require much in the way of graphics. 

I firstly enter    sudo apt-get update  (which is successful)

Then I enter     sudo apt-get install games-finest-light     only to be greeted with the error message  "Unable to locate package games-finest-light"

Just wondering if there is a different way of doing things these days?  I used to install this package in this way.

Regards,

Paul

Last edited by West Swan (2022-04-13 10:22)

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Use

$ apt show games-finest

to check it is the package you are looking for and install it if it is.
I made a --dry-run install and it is not light at all (huge amount of packages to be installed)!

The exact package you are looking for was available in Debian 9 but Q4OS is based on Debian 11.

Last edited by hchiper (2022-04-13 11:43)

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West Swan

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Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 6

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Thank you for that.

I think you are right. 

A check of  games-finest  shows it is available but  games-finest-light  is not.

That is a pity because I believe the "light" refers to those games that don't require a hardware accelerated video card.  I understand it is not at all light in terms of how much space it takes up on the hard drive.

I just wanted to put a good selection of low resource games on this old laptop to give to a neighbors child.  It definitely does not have a hardware accelerated video card.

Still it can connect to the internet with Palemoon browser and has the basic Abiword - laptop still usable after 17 years - whoo hooo.

Thanks again,

Paul

Last edited by West Swan (2022-04-13 12:12)

DricC

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Registered: 2023-11-20

Posts: 11

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Hello Paul, does this remain unsolved? no lightweight games pack for old hardware running Q4OS? I have such a computer as yourse, for which Q4OS is the perfect alternative to Windows XP.

Senas Komunistas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 52

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Hello. You can try these lightweight games:

bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gnuchess, greed, matanza, moria, nethack, omega-rpg, open-invaders, pacman4console, pente, sudoku

DricC

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Registered: 2023-11-20

Posts: 11

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Hello. You can try these lightweight games:

bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gnuchess, greed, matanza, moria, nethack, omega-rpg, open-invaders, pacman4console, pente, sudoku

Oh thank you! How can I install them? do I find a step-by-step guide somewhere?

Senas Komunistas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 52

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Oh thank you! How can I install them? do I find a step-by-step guide somewhere?

It is very simple. For example i want install game "bastet"

Just open terminal and type:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install bastet

Or you can install all these games:

sudo apt install bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gnuchess, greed, matanza, moria, nethack, omega-rpg, open-invaders, pacman4console, pente, sudoku

DricC

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Registered: 2023-11-20

Posts: 11

Re: Can't install Debian Games Finest Light

Exactly what I needed, and it's simple indeed! Is the game Prince of Percia available like that as well? how?
Edit: I read that it is not available, not even a demo, because Ubisoft holds the copyrights.

Last edited by DricC (2023-11-22 22:10)