PySol Fan Club edition

This is a collection of Card Solitaire/Patience games written in Python. See http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

This is a maintenance branch of PySol FC by Shlomi Fish and by some other people, aiming to clean up the code, add features, fix bugs, port to Python 3, etc.

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/ .

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 ):

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
$ ln -s html-src html
$ 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

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 (or edit config.h)

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.