Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Snake is a popular game which is available by default on the old Nokia phones.
Alex Dantas, a third party developer has created a terminal-based clone of Snake, called NSnake, which has a few features missing from the original game, including: three maze sizes, the snake can eat more than one fruit at the same time and random walls are spawned, in order to make the game a little more difficult.
The latest version available is NSnake 2.0.0, which has been recently created.
In this article I will show you how to install NSnake 2.0.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian and Debian/Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is not available via PPA, we have to install NSnake 2.0.0 from sources. Follow the below steps exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
Install the needed dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
Download NSnake:
$ cd ~
$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnake/files/GNU-Linux/nsnake-2.0.0.tar.gz
Extract the archive and cd into the extracted folder:
$ tar -xzvf nsnake-2.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd nsnake-2.0.0
Compile and install NSnake:
$ make
$ sudo make install
Alias NSnake, for an easier usage:
$ echo "alias snake=~/nsnake-2.0.0/nsnake &> /dev/null &" >> ~/.bashrc
Now, just type snake in the terminal, to open the app.