This is an open source and portable (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) collection of Card Solitaire/Patience games written in Python. It is based on 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, and implement other enhancements.

• 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/ .
  • Black Hole Solitaire Solver

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

You can run from the source directory:

$ python pysol.py

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

On Mageia you can do:

$ sudo urpmi git make pygtk2 pygtk2.0-libglade gnome-python-canvas tkinter

On Debian / Ubuntu / etc. you can do:

$ sudo apt-get install -y ack-grep cpanminus libperl-dev make perl python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-dev python-gtk2 python-setuptools python-tk

$ git clone https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC.git
$ cd PySolFC
$ 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 "`pwd`/PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0" ~/.PySolFC/cardsets
$ python pysol.py

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.

• 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

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.

In addition, we set up a Google Group for discussing open source card games which will also be used for discussing PySol. Feel free to subscribe or post!