Installing Angband on CentOS 5

Installation of Angband 3.0.9 on RedHat or CentOS5.

1) Grab the latest source release from http://rephial.org/release

# cd /root
# wget http://rephial.org/downloads/3.0/angband-3.0.9-src.tar.gz
# tar xzf angband-3.0.9-src.tar.gz

2) Compile the source code (the following is for running angband from the location where you unpacked the source, see Compiling for other options)

# cd angband-3.0.9
# ./configure
# make
# make install

3a) Errors: Make can't find "ncurses.h" (see also Compiling)

# make
CC main-gcu.c
main-gcu.c:63:22: error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory

Which indicates that you need to install the ncurses library. You can fix that by installing the "ncurses-devel" and re-running "./configure".

# yum install ncurses-devel
# ./configure

4) If you do a system install (making Angband available for all users on the system), make sure you add the users to the "games" group. Otherwise, when your users attempt to run Angband, they will get error messages about not being able to write to various files in the /usr/local/games/lib/angband folders.

# ./configure --with-setgid=games --with-libpath=/usr/local/games/lib/angband --bindir=/usr/local/games
# make
# make install