Build bsdgames from source
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Many of the games are disabled by default on Ubuntu. But we can enable some games and build from source with:
apt-get source bsdgames
cd bsdgames-*
sed -ri '/^bsd_games_cfg_no_build_dirs=/s/ number / /' config.params
./configure
make -jHere we enabled the game number, so now we can:which gives:
number/number 123one hundred twenty-three.We can also "install" it locally with:which puts the games locally under:which you can add to your
make installdebian/bsdgames/usr/games/numberPATH environment variable.Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, bsdgames 2.17.