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I'm updating the official binary to be built on a Redhat 8.0 system. This should give the binary some legs if we take a while to get the next release out.
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NetHack 3.4.1 Linux Elf
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This README provides the instructions for using the official Linux binary,
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system platform requirements, as well as steps used to create that binary.
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The same steps can be used from the source distribution to create a similar
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binary.
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The official Linux binary has support for tty and X11 windowing systems, but
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not Qt. This means you will need to have X11 libraries installed on your
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system to run this binary, even in its tty flavor.
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The Linux binary package assumes that you have a user and a group named
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"games" on your system. If you do not, you can simplify installation by
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creating them first.
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gunzip and untar the package, preserving permissions, from / to put the
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NetHack files in /usr/games/nethack and /usr/games/lib/nethackdir.
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(If you have old record and logfile entries from a previous NetHack version,
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you might want to save copies before they get overwritten by the new empty
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files; old saved games and bones files from 3.4.0 will work with 3.4.1).
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In addition to data files for running the game, you will find other useful
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things in /usr/games/lib/nethackdir (such as a copy of this README :-).
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The general documentation Guidebook.txt and the processed man pages
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nethack.txt and recover.txt should provide an introduction to the game.
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The sample config file called dot.nethackrc can be used by copying
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it to your home directory as .nethackrc and modifying it to your liking.
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If you are running X11 copy the nh10.pcf and ibm.pcf font files from
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/usr/games/lib/nethackdir to a X11 fonts directory (such as
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/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc) and run "mkfontdir", then restart X
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windows to load them. Also consider putting NetHack.ad in
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/usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults or its contents in your .Xdefaults or
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.Xresources.
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The official Linux binary is set up to run setgid games, which allows
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multiple users on your system to play the game and prevents cheating by
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unprivileged users. The usual default for NetHack is setuid games, but
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this causes problems with accessing .nethackrc on distributions with
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restrictive default security on home directories and users who don't know
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the tradeoffs of various permission settings.
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If you have problems, send us some email.
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nethack-bugs@nethack.org
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Steps used to build this binary release
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System: gcc-3.2, XFree86-libs-4.2.0, ncurses-5.2, glibc-2.2.93
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0. Makefile.top: GAMEGRP = games
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GAMEPERM = 02755
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FILEPERM = 0664
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EXEPERM = 0755
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DIRPERM = 0775
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VARDATND = x11tiles pet_mark.xbm rip.xpm
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1. Makefile.src: define LINUX and linux options throughout
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WINSRC = $(WINTTYSRC) $(WINX11SRC)
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WINOBJ = $(WINTTYOBJ) $(WINX11OBJ)
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WINTTYLIB = /usr/lib/libncurses.a
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Include Xpm libs in WINX11LIB
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WINLIB = $(WINTTYLIB) $(WINX11LIB)
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2. Makefile.utl: define LINUX and linux options throughout
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Use bison/flex instead of yacc/lex
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3. config.h: define X11 window support, XPM support.
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define COMPRESS as /bin/gzip as that is where it
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seems to reside on newer Linux's.
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define COMPRESS_EXTENSION as ".gz"
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define DLB
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4. unixconf.h: define LINUX
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define TIMED_DELAY
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5. make all; su; make install
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6. Convert nh10.bdf and ibm.bdf to proper font files and place in
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font path.
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