• Step 1: download.

  Click on both links below to download. Depending on your browser, you may need to right-click so that the file is saved to disk and not displayed.

  nethack-3.2.3-ELF.tgz

  NetHack 3.2.3 Linux Elf

  recover

  The file "recover" is the auxiliary application to recover after system or game crashes. See the man page for more details.

• Step 2: unpack.

  gunzip and untar the package from / to put the NetHack files in /usr/games/nethack and /usr/games/lib/nethackdir.

• Step 3: install.

  In addition to data files for running the game, you will find other useful things in /usr/games/lib/nethackdir (such as a copy of this README :-).

  The general documentation Guidebook.txt and the processed man pages nethack.man and recover.man should provide an introduction to the game.

  The sample config file called dot.nethackrc can be used by copying it to your home directory as .nethackrc and modifying it to your liking.

  If you are running X11 copy the nh10.pdf and ibm.pdf font files from /usr/games/lib/nethackdir to a X11 fonts directory (such as /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc) and run "mkfontdir", then restart X windows to load them. Also consider putting NetHack.ad in /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults or its contents in your .Xdefaults or .Xresources.

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