[Solved] Missing KDE Games

[cwchia]

Hi,

I have a little problem with my old work laptop which is now mainly for my children's work and play. As it was a work machine, there was no games in it. Now I need to install KDE games for my children and to my surprise I could not find any kde games packages in synaptic.

My system is updated to the latest just a few hours ago and there seems to have no problem at all.

The only thing I can get from synaptic that has "kdegames" from my search result is kdegames-devel.

Pleas help, thanks!

[menotu]

Open Synaptic and go to Tools > Repositories and add the megagames repo

http://ftp.vim.org/ibiblio/distributions/pclinuxos/megagames/apt/

[Bald Brick]

Even without the megagames repository there should be 41 game packages for KDE 4.9.2, plus a meta package that installs all of them. But search for kde-games, not kdegames. (And I think you should uninstall kdegames-devel  before you install anything else. It's probably an obsolete package.)

[cwchia]

Thank you both for your reply. I'm now in office away from the old laptop which is at home. Will look into Bald Brick's suggestion.

To menotu, I have megagames repo in the list and it is updated. What I missed was kpatient etc which is part of the kde games pack.

Happy Holiday!

[menotu]

Even without the megagames repository there should be 41 game packages for KDE 4.9.2, plus a meta package that installs all of them. But search for kde-games, not kdegames. (And I think you should uninstall kdegames-devel  before you install anything else. It's probably an obsolete package.)

This is on 32bit KDE PCLinuxOS

In Synaptic - with only the megagames repo enabled - I entered kpat as the search term and it brought up: kde-games-kpat with a description of Several patience card games

[kjpetrie]

Odd, that package is definitely in the kde section on heanet; (http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.kde/kde-games-kpat-4.9.2-1_archie_2012.i586.rpm to be precise).

Edit: No, not odd at all if you already have it installed. Synaptic knows about packages in the repo plus all installed packages. If you disable the repo/section which contains them they'll be marked as local or obsolete, but they'll still be shown.

[cwchia]

Thank you all guys. I think the problem is I did not search for the proper name 

Found the packages and downloading now for my children

[thorper]

Don't forget about the gnome-games package