Install - Copenhagen Hnefatafl

The binaries hnefatafl-ai, hnefatafl-client, hnefatafl-server, hnefatafl-server-full and hnefatafl-text-protocol are made available from the Arch, Cargo, Debian, and Fedora sources. The Windows and Flathub sources only provide hnefatafl-client. The NPM source only provides something akin to hnefatafl-text-protocol.

On Linux you should run the Flathub client to avoid font issues.

Running the Applications

You can pass --help to any of the following commands to get all of the runtime options.

You can run the engine with:

hnefatafl-text-protocol --display-game

or you can start a local server:

hnefatafl-server-full

and run a local client:

hnefatafl-client --host localhost

All platforms

You need to install Rust.

Linux Dependencies

ALSA development files are needed to build cpal on Linux (rodio dependency, hnefatafl-client dependency). These are provided as part of the alsa-lib package on Arch, libasound2-dev package on Debian and Ubuntu, and alsa-lib-devel on Fedora.

The package uses the mold linker. This is provided via the mold package on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

Cargo

In your terminal run:

# On Windows pass `--features console` to see console output.
cargo install hnefatafl-copenhagen

Source

In your terminal run:

git clone https://codeberg.org/dcampbell/hnefatafl.git

Linux

Arch

In your terminal run:

sudo pacman --sync yay
yay --sync hnefatafl-copenhagen

Debian

In your terminal run:

echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.hnefatafl.org.asc] https://hnefatafl.org/apt stable main' \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hnefatafl.list

or if using the newer /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources, add:

Types: deb
URIs: https://hnefatafl.org/apt
Suites: stable
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.hnefatafl.org.asc

Then, Download packages.hnefatafl.org.asc to /etc/apt/keyrings/ or:

wget https://hnefatafl.org/packages.hnefatafl.org.asc
sudo mv packages.hnefatafl.org.asc /etc/apt/keyrings/

Then:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install hnefatafl-copenhagen

Fedora COPR

In your terminal run:

sudo dnf copr enable dcampbell24/hnefatafl-copenhagen
sudo dnf install hnefatafl-copenhagen

Flathub

In your terminal run:

flatpak install flathub org.hnefatafl.hnefatafl_client
flatpak run org.hnefatafl.hnefatafl_client

or to see all your options run:

flatpak run org.hnefatafl.hnefatafl_client --help

or under KDE go to:

Application Launcher -> Games -> Hnefatafl Copenhagen

Windows

Chocolatey

Install Chocolatey.

Then install hnefatafl-copenhagen.

Go to the Start menu and run Hnefatafl.

Android

F-Droid

Go to Google. Scroll down to Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account. If it is on, turn it off.
Go to F-Droid and download F-Droid.
Open F-Droid, go to search, and install Termux: Terminal emulator with packages.
Open Termux, then run the following:

# Only need to run this once per update.

pkg upgrade
termux-change-repo
pkg install rust git x11-repo
pkg install xfce termux-x11-nightly
git clone https://github.com/termux/termux-packages termux-packages-hnefatafl-copenhagen-dest
git clone -b hnefatafl-copenhagen https://github.com/robertkirkman/termux-packages termux-packages-hnefatafl-copenhagen-src
cp -r termux-packages-hnefatafl-copenhagen-src/x11-packages/hnefatafl-copenhagen/ termux-packages-hnefatafl-copenhagen-dest/x11-packages/
cd termux-packages-hnefatafl-copenhagen-dest
scripts/setup-termux.sh
./build-package.sh -I -f hnefatafl-copenhagen
cd output/
apt reinstall ./hnefatafl-copenhagen*.deb

# Repeat this every time you want to run the program.

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 DISPLAY=:0
termux-x11 -xstartup xfce4-session &
hnefatafl-client --ascii

Then go to Termux:X11 from the main menu. You may need to hold Termux:11 to go to the Preferences -> Output, then increase the Display scale %.

NPM

# With Apache and Firefox on Debian.
sudo npm install -g hnefatafl-copenhagen
sudo mkdir --parent /var/www/html/pkg
sudo cp /usr/lib/node_modules/hnefatafl-copenhagen/ -r pkg /var/www/html

Then load the javascript on a webpage:

cat << EOF > /var/www/html/index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Copenhagen Hnefatafl</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Copenhagen Hnefatafl</h1>
    <script type="module">
        import init, { Game } from '../pkg/hnefatafl_copenhagen.js';

        init().then(() => {
            const game = new Game();
            const output = game.read_line_js("show_board");
            console.log(output);
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>
EOF

See the message protocol for all of the commands available.

# With Apache running.
firefox localhost

Redox @

Edit your user config to include:

[packages]
hnefatafl-copenhagen = "source"

You should be at least using the packages supplied via include = ["desktop-minimal.toml"]. Go to games and open Hnefatafl or run /usr/games/hnefatafl-client. After logging in and exiting the application, you’ll have to restart Redox, because the application is buggy.

There are also at least these bugs:

There are no CJK fonts.
On a button press two characters are read in instead of one.
Backspace does not work.
I think you have to restart Redox after entering the application, because TcpStream shutdown is not implemented.

Keyboard shortcuts

Copenhagen Hnefatafl