gnome-hearts No Longer Available in antiX-19

[Member RobK88]

One of my favourite card games is no longer available in AntiX-19 (i386) — gnome-hearts.
It does not show up in the list of available packages. (It is available in antiX-17).

Has anyone had any success porting gnome-hearts to antiX-19 (x86)?

[Anonymous]

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porting? no, because Debian10 dropped many of the packages gnome-hearts depends on.

The following (tested) enabled me to install & run gnome-hearts in antiX 19:

Temporarily add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

sudo apt update
sudo install gnome-hearts

then remove that “stretch” line from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
and again perform apt update

Launch gnome-hearts from a terminal prompt and keep a lookout for any errors (not “GTK warnings”).
FWIW, during my brief test I did not notice any errors.

[Member RobK88]

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skidoo — Many thanks showing me your trick to get gnome-hearts installed on antiX-19. I would have never thought of trying to temporarily use the stretch repos.
I will definitely give it a shot.

[Member imchipbrown]

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It worked for me. I don’t know what Anti-x I have. uname -r reports “5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp”
Had to “Fix broken packages” in synaptic a couple of times before it worked. I unchecked the stretch line in synaptic when I was finished.

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