Having problems running Frozen Bubble ?

If you are colourblind, we already have what you're looking for: please use the -cb commandline parameter, and bubbles will be printed with little geometrical symbols inside.

Most of the problems you can encounter with Frozen-Bubble don't require contacting us directly, and actually we can't fix most of them.

First, please notice that we have developed this software on the Gnu/Linux platform. There are ports to other operating-systems, but we can't and don't want to support them. If you happen to be using Frozen-Bubble on FreeBSD, Windows or Mac OSX, please contact the authors of this "version" if you have trouble installing/running/whatever. Thank you.

First, please notice that we are not a Gnu/Linux vendor, we are not Debian, Gentoo or Mandrakesoft. So if you can't install it with apt-get, emerge, urpmi, yum or whatever, or if you managed to install it but it won't start or won't run properly, there are much higher chances this is a problem with your vendor, not with us. Try to think before contacting us: is your problem really with our software? or with how your vendor compiled/integrated it with the system?

Now, to ease your life, we provide links to common problems you may encounter.

• ...cannot handle TLS data... message at startup: it seems this is related with buggy or badly installed nvidia drivers (now you see that proprietary drivers add to the troubles, but anyway). Debian has a bugreport and a fix for this one.
• Can't locate SDL.pm in @INC... message at startup: either you didn't install sdlperl, or you installed it at the wrong location. Check where the file "SDL.pm" was installed on your system and what is the @INC search path of perl, there are chances they don't match.
• crash with a SIGILL when trying to start a new game: you're probably using buggy SDL-1.2.6 on an Intel processors; please update to SDL-1.2.7 or more recent.
• Not a HASH reference at /usr/games/frozen-bubble line 310 message at startup: it seems that you're using an incompatible (too recent) version of perl-SDL. Either downgrade or apply this patch.

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