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aveline

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Posted: July 14 2004,06:41

ok this is totally off topic and has little to norhting to do w/DSL but i am really stumped.

my last post talked about G'Compris & how it does not have a chess program in it. i got to wondering if someone out there in DSL land would know of a very or fairly good chess program for kids who are under 8.

i do not know where else to look because google will return so many false leads it is not funny nor do i know how to search for this knowledge on the rest of the web or i would.

if no one answers this i won't be a bit surprised but if someone does i'd be deeply grateful. ideally the proggy would be for windows & linux but i dont' mind if its just one or the other.

if someone knows of a URL or anything too just for the info on where to find such a thing i would also be very grateful.

ty
aveline

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Posted: July 14 2004,11:47

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

http://rpmfind.net

aveline

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Posted: July 14 2004,18:45

thx guess i'll start there. heh... out of curiousity if i chose a debian package where would i find information on using/installing it to a dsl system?

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Posted: July 14 2004,20:47

By saying you want a Chess game for kids do you mean you want a game which teaches Kids to play the game, or a program with a lot of eye-candy.

Either way, check out FreshMeat:
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=chess&section=projects

cbagger01

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Posted: July 15 2004,01:28

For more info, read the "how-to" and search the forums for keyword "apt", choose SEARCH ALL FORUMS and search FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER

In short:

Choose Enable Apt from the menu and wait for it to install.
To install 'packagename', open an xterminal and type:

sudo su
apt-get install packagename

to install from the Debian 'stable' package server.

If you want to manually install a package file that you have downloaded, type:

sudo su
dpkg -i packagefilename.deb

Or if you want the point-n-click way of installing debian packages, choose "Synaptic" from the Got Memory & Bandwidth menu.

HTH

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