hello, I am trying to install knights on an arch linux x64 laptop with kde plasma 5.13.5 whereas it installs ok I cannot get the engines to be recognised as installed in the app itself although they show up as there. I have read that knights needs to be compiled/installed within the KDE directory, is that the case? thanks

update: I compiled knights but it crashed upon starting the game, below the crash report, any thoughts?

thanks

Application: Knights (knights), signal: Segmentation fault
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fb9705f7c80 (LWP 2211))]

Thread 4 (Thread 0x7fb966270700 (LWP 2215)):
#0 0x00007fb975fd4afc in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007fb96680a17c in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
#2 0x00007fb966809eb8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
#3 0x00007fb975fcea9d in start_thread () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
#4 0x00007fb976976a43 in clone () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Thread 3 (Thread 0x7fb96d897700 (LWP 2213)):
#0 0x00007fb976967734 in read () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fb975009781 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0x00007fb975059a50 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007fb97505ae86 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007fb97505afce in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007fb977033fe4 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#6 0x00007fb976fdf8cc in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#7 0x00007fb976e28eb9 in QThread::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#8 0x00007fb977eddba6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQt5DBus.so.5
#9 0x00007fb976e32f65 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#10 0x00007fb975fcea9d in start_thread () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
#11 0x00007fb976976a43 in clone () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7fb96ec10700 (LWP 2212)):
#0 0x00007fb97696bbb1 in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fb9761bb630 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#2 0x00007fb9761bd2db in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#3 0x00007fb97019cc5a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
#4 0x00007fb976e32f65 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#5 0x00007fb975fcea9d in start_thread () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
#6 0x00007fb976976a43 in clone () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fb9705f7c80 (LWP 2211)):
[KCrash Handler]
#6 0x00007fb97916c7c0 in KgTheme::identifier() const () from /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGames.so.7
#7 0x00007fb97916268c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGames.so.7
#8 0x00007fb979163b7f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGames.so.7
#9 0x00007fb9791641eb in KGameRenderer::frameCount(QString const&) const () from /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGames.so.7
#10 0x00007fb979164b8a in KGameRenderer::spriteExists(QString const&) const () from /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGames.so.7
#11 0x000055baafe1c48d in Knights::Board::updateTheme() ()
#12 0x000055baafe19ef7 in Knights::Board::Board(KgThemeProvider*, QObject*) ()
#13 0x000055baafe218d9 in Knights::KnightsView::drawBoard(KgThemeProvider*) ()
#14 0x000055baafe2590f in Knights::MainWindow::MainWindow() ()
#15 0x000055baafe314d6 in main ()
[Inferior 1 (process 2211) detached]

Hello,

You should have KDE as well as libkdegames headers (in libkdegames-devel or libkdegames-dev packages). And versions 2.5 and later need KDE 4.9 or newer versions.

Update: Older KDE needs a 2.4.
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