I’m at home fixing some things one my mother’s new laptop, including upgrading to the latest Ubuntu. (Usually that’s a bad idea, but in this case it came with an update to LibreOffice which repaired the hang it previously encountered when opening any RTF file. Which was a somewhat urgent matter to solve.)
But, alas, one of the games (five-or-more, formerly glines) broke
and now segfaults on startup. Happens to be the one game that she
likes to play every day. What to do? The binary packages linked
here don’t work.
Here’s how to roll your own: Get the essential development libraries
and the ones specifically required for five-or-more, also the
checkinstall tool.
apt-get install build-essential dpkg-dev checkinstall
apt-get build-dep five-or-more
Change to a temporary directory, get the source:
apt-get source five-or-more
Then apply the fix, configure and compile it:
./configure
make
But instead of doing a make install, simply use sudo checkinstall.
This will build a pseudo Debian package, so that at least removing it
will be easier in case an update will fix the issue.
How can this be difficult to fix?! *grr*