Pipe Panic!

I came across Pipe Panic for the Nokia 770, and I really like it. It's a pipe connecting game: the goal is to connect pipes to create a leak-proof path from a water source to its destination.

Requirements. Install the libSDL libraries with apt-get.

apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev

Installation. Download the sourcecode from the Pipe Panic website.

Extract and compile the package.

tar -xzvf pipepanic-0.1.3-source.tar.gz
cd pipepanic
make

(For the last step above you need to have the build tools installed. See my earlier post on post-installation setup.)

Test it.

./pipepanic -f

Install system wide.

mv pipepanic pipepanic.bin

Create a file called pipepanic containing the following three lines.

#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/pipepanic-0.1.3
exec ./pipepanic.bin -f

Copy the pipepanic directory into /usr/local.

cd ..
mv pipepanic-0.1.3-source /usr/local/pipepanic-0.1.3

Create symbolic links

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s ../pipepanic-0.1.3/pipepanic .

Add a menu entry. To add an entry to the Xfce menu, create a file called /usr/share/applications/pipepanic.desktop containing the following.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Pipe Panic
Comment=Connect the Pipes!
Exec=pipepanic
Icon=
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Game;ArcadeGame;