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+Notes on the SlackBuild. Probably only of interest to SBo packagers.
+This stuff was comments in the script, until it got too long.
+
+There's no audio in this game. That's not a bug or anything, it's designed
+that way.
+
+The source is included in the package (src.zip), but nothing like a
+Makefile or build.xml. I have no idea how to build it. If I knew how, or
+wanted to spend the time/effort (and grit my teeth & ignore my distaste
+for all things Java), I'd try to build it with gcc-java... any takers?
+
+Slackware 14.2 ships with gij, gcc-java's bytecode interpreter. I tried
+running 'gij -jar Domination.jar' and was able to start a single-player
+(vs. AI) game, but 'play online' threw a crypto exception:
+
+java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm [RSA] of type [Cipher] from provider [gnu.javax.security.auth.callback.GnuCallbacks: name=GNU-CALLBACKS version=2.1] is not found
+
+Not sure if this is something that can be worked around or not. A bit
+of googling led me to something called the Bouncy Castle JCE, which
+adds crypto support and might work with gcc-java... but, that's more
+involved with Java than I want to get. If you want to check it out and
+maybe submit a build for it, see: http://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html
+
+This is a binary package, everything in one dir. move around to make
+sense. Have to have a wrapper script and symlink forest in user's
+homedir, since it expects to write to the dir it runs from. Looks
+like help/ lib/ maps/ resources/ can be symlinked. game.ini and saves/
+need to be user-writable.
+
+The various *.sh scripts run with different frontends. Unless someone
+requests any of the others, I'm only going to care about the main
+one (run.sh) and the swing one (which has the map editor). There's a
+command-line frontend, but it looks like it wouldn't be much fun to play:
+doesn't even draw ASCII art maps, not menu driven, uses long command
+names and no readline/etc. I assume the Domination maintainers use it
+for testing purposes.