Downloading and installing Childsplay

Installing Childsplay is very easy, just unpack the tarball and run the installer called 'INSTALL.SH'. That's all!

Don't forget to install the plugins package as well. It contains most of the games.

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Linux

Childsplay is part of the major GNU/Linux distributions so you can also look for binary packages from your GNU/Linux distro. There are also RPM packages available from various sources, just try rpmfind.net

FreeBSD

Childsplay is part of the official FreeBSD ports collection. The description file is here.

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Requirements:

Python 2.1 or higher - www.python.org
pygame 1.6 or higher - www.pygame.org
pyfribidi (Only needed for RTL languages) - hspell-gui.sf.net/pyfribidi.htm
SDL libraries: SDL1.2 SDL-image1.2, SDL-ttf2.0, SDL-mixer1.2
Libogg0

Advice from the pygame install doc: "Installation: You should definitely begin by installing a binary package for your system. The binary packages usually come with or give the information needed for dependencies."

Please read the manual that comes with pygame, SDL, and Python if you're gonna install from source.