daodaoliang / pysolfc

An awesome collection of Solitaire games for Python. This is an unofficial clone of the Subversion repository, in order to maintain some branches with improvements.

PySol Fan Club edition

This is a collection of Card Solitaire/Patience games written in Python. See http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

This is a maintenance branch of PySol FC by Shlomi Fish and by some other people, aiming to clean up the code, add features, fix bugs, port to Python 3, etc.

Screenshots

Requirements.

• Python (2.4 or later) (NB: CPython 2.6.0 has a bug, use 2.6.1 instead)

• Tkinter (Tcl/Tk 8.4 or later)

• For sound support (optional)

  • PySol-Sound-Server: http://www.pysol.org/ (mp3, wav, tracker music) or
  • PyGame: http://www.pygame.org/ (mp3, ogg, wav, midi, tracker music)

• Other packages (optional):

  • Tile (ttk): http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ (0.8.0 or later)
  • PIL (Python Imaging Library): http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
  • Freecell Solver: http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ .

Installation.

See: http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/

Running from source without installation.

You can run from the source directory:

$ python pysol.py

After following steps similar to these (on Mageia Linux ):

$ sudo urpmi git # urpmi is similar to apt-get
$ git clone https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC.git
$ cd PySolFC
$ git checkout shlomif--main-branch--master
$ sudo urpmi tkinter
$ sudo urpmi pygtk2
$ sudo urpmi pygtk2.0-libglade
$ sudo urpmi gnome-python-canvas
$ gmake test
$ ln -s html-src html
$ ln -s data/images images
$ tar -xvf PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0.tar.bz2 # Need to be downloaded from sourceforge
$ mkdir -p ~/.PySolFC
$ rmdir ~/.PySolFC/cardsets
$ ln -s ~/.PySolFC/cardsets PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0
$ python pysol.py

Configuring Freecell Solver

If you want to use the Solver, you should configure freecell-solver ( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) by passing the following options to its CMake-based build-system: -DMAX_NUM_FREECELLS=8 -DMAX_NUM_STACKS=20 -DMAX_NUM_INITIAL_CARDS_IN_A_STACK=60 (or edit config.h)

Install Extras.

• Music

• Copy some music files (mp3 for example) to ~/.PySolFC/music/

• Original PySol music can be downloaded from: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/solitaires/pysol-music-4.40.tar.gz

• Cardsets

• Copy cardsets to ~/.PySolFC/cardsets

• Additional cardsets can be downloaded from the PySolFC project page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=150718

Chat

To facilitate coordination about contributing to PySol, please join us for a real time Internet chat on the ##pysol chat room on Freenode (note the double octhothorpe/hash-sign/pound-sign) . We may set up chat rooms on different services in the future.