# Gaming in Rocky

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**Category:** Off-Topic\
**Created:** [March 23, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gaming-in-rocky/5693 "2022-03-23T18:33:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gaming-in-rocky/5693/25 "2022-03-31T18:41:36Z")

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**Step #2 - Install packages from official Rocky repos**

as root

make sure powertools repo is enabled

```auto
dnf repolist
dnf config-manager --set-enabled "powertools"

```

make sure dev tools are installed  
`dnf group install "Development Tools"`

install packages needed to build software in general

```auto
dnf install pkgconf-pkg-config
dnf install ninja-build
dnf install platform-python-devel
dnf install python36-devel
	python36, [d][e]
dnf install meson
dnf install glib2-devel
	baseos
dnf install gtk3-devel.x86_64
	appstream

```

install packages needed to build AisleRiot

```auto
dnf install libappstream-glib-devel
dnf install cairo-devel
dnf install GConf2-devel
dnf install glib2-devel
dnf install gtk3-devel
dnf install guile-devel
dnf install libcanberra-devel
//skip 'qt5-qtsvg-devel' and use librsvg2 instead
dnf install librsvg2-devel

```

still as root, create a directory for building software  
`mkdir -p /data/build`  
set permissions to allow create/read/write/delete for standard user  
log out of being root

**Step #3 - Build (and then play) the AisleRiot game**

this part does NOT need root  
as standard user

`cd /data/build`  
decide git or tar?  
the tarballs are too old, so we need to use git version which has tar.gz download option  
`wget "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/aisleriot/-/archive/master/aisleriot-master.tar.gz"`  
make sure it looks correct  
`ls -l aisleriot-master.tar.gz`  
extract it  
`tar -xf aisleriot-master.tar.gz`  
change to the extracted directory  
`cd /data/build/aisleriot-master`  
create two directories, one for building, one for “installing”

```auto
mkdir builddir/
mkdir inst/

```

configure it  
`meson setup builddir --prefix /data/build/aisleriot-master/inst/usr/local -Dtheme_kde_path=/usr/share/carddecks`

install it as standard user without affecting any system locations

```auto
meson install -C builddir
echo $?

```

start the game  
set the xdg data dirs, ‘glib-2.0/schemas’ will be added to the end of the path

```auto
cd /data/build/aisleriot-master
XDG_DATA_DIRS+=:inst/usr/local/share inst/usr/local/bin/sol

```

inside the game  
you might want “Control : Click to move”

**Step #4 - to uninstall later**

remove the conf file from homedir

```auto
cat ~/.config/gnome-games/aisleriot
rm ~/.config/gnome-games/aisleriot

```

delete everything in ‘builddir’ and ‘inst’

```auto
cd /data/build/aisleriot-master
rm -rf inst/
rm -rf builddir/

```

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