PySol Fan Club edition

This is an open source and portable (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) collection of Card Solitaire/Patience games written in Python. Its homepage is http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

The maintenance branch of PySol FC on GitHub by Shlomi Fish and by some other people, has gained official status, ported the code to Python 3, and implemented some other enhancements.

Screenshots

Requirements.

• Python (2.4 or later) (NB: CPython 2.6.0 has a bug, use 2.6.1 instead)

• Tkinter (Tcl/Tk 8.4 or later)

• For sound support (optional)

  • PySol-Sound-Server: http://www.pysol.org/ (mp3, wav, tracker music) or
  • PyGame: http://www.pygame.org/ (mp3, ogg, wav, midi, tracker music)

• Other packages (optional):

  • Tile (ttk): http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ (0.8.0 or later)
  • PIL (Python Imaging Library): http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
  • Freecell Solver: http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ .
  • Black Hole Solitaire Solver

Installation.

See: http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/

Running from source without installation.

You can run from the source directory:

$ python pysol.py

After following steps similar to these (on Mageia Linux ):

Alternate toolkit.

• Python2 (2.7 or later)

• Kivy (10.0 or later)

• Features:

  • Sound support integrated.
  • Android apk build support.

• Running from source without installation:

$ python2 pysol.py --kivy

Step 1 - install the dependencies

On Mageia you can do:

$ sudo urpmi git make pygtk2 pygtk2.0-libglade gnome-python-canvas tkinter

On Debian / Ubuntu / etc. you can do:

$ sudo apt-get install -y ack-grep cpanminus libperl-dev make perl python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-dev python-gtk2 python-setuptools python-tk

Step 2 - build PySol.

$ git clone https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC.git
$ cd PySolFC
$ sudo urpmi tkinter
$ sudo urpmi pygtk2
$ sudo urpmi pygtk2.0-libglade
$ sudo urpmi gnome-python-canvas
$ gmake test
$ gmake rules
$ ln -s data/images images
$ tar -xvf PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0.tar.bz2 # Need to be downloaded from sourceforge
$ mkdir -p ~/.PySolFC
$ rmdir ~/.PySolFC/cardsets
$ ln -s "`pwd`/PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0" ~/.PySolFC/cardsets
$ python pysol.py

Note! If you are using a Debian derivative (e.g: Debian, Ubuntu, or Linu Mint) and you are getting an error of "No cardsets were found !!! Main data directory is [insert dir here] Please check your PySol installation.", then you likely installed the cardsets package which has removed some files that are needed by pysol from source (without the debian modifications).

Please uninstall that package and use the cardsets archive from sourceforge.net per the instructions above.

Configuring Freecell Solver

If you want to use the solver, you should configure freecell-solver ( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) by passing the following options to its CMake-based build-system: -DMAX_NUM_FREECELLS=8 -DMAX_NUM_STACKS=20 -DMAX_NUM_INITIAL_CARDS_IN_A_STACK=60.

Install Extras.

• Music

• Copy some music files (mp3 for example) to ~/.PySolFC/music/

• Original PySol music can be downloaded from: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/solitaires/pysol-music-4.40.tar.gz

• Cardsets

• Copy cardsets to ~/.PySolFC/cardsets

• Additional cardsets can be downloaded from the PySolFC project page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=150718

Chat

To facilitate coordination about contributing to PySol, please join us for a real time Internet chat on the ##pysol chat room on Freenode (note the double octhothorpe/hash-sign/pound-sign) . We may set up chat rooms on different services in the future.

In addition, we set up a Google Group for discussing open source card games which will also be used for discussing PySol. Feel free to subscribe or post!