Throw colourful bubbles to build groups and destroy the groups. With 1p-game, aim is to destroy all bubbles, with 2p-game, aim is that your opponent dies before you. In multiplayer mode, up to 5 players can play at the same time. Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, a level-editor, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.

This guide show you how to compile the latest version of Frozen Bubble. If you don't want to compile from the source, please check Synaptic package manager for Frozen Bubble or Getdeb if they have an up-to-date ubuntu package available.

Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.
Check if your sourcelist is fully enable (universe, multiverse and mediabuntu).

Next step is to download Compiling tools and the right libs to make Frozen Bubble work. To the terminal;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential checkinstall
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-perl libpango1.0-dev

Frozen Bubble also need an API patch for SDL Pango lib.
Download SDL Pango and the patch to your Desktop;

SDL Pango source code download

SDL Pango API patch download

Back to the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar zxfv SDL_Pango-0.1.2.tar.gz
cd SDL_Pango-0.1.2
patch -p0 <../SDL_Pango-0.1.2-API-adds.patch
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo checkinstall

Now you are ready to compile Frozen Bubble.

Download Frozen Bubble Source code to your Desktop;

Download Source code (.bz2)

To the terminal once more;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar jxfv frozen-bubble-2.1.0.tar.bz2
cd frozen-bubble-2.1.0
make
sudo make install
sudo checkinstall

Code:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/FrozenBubble2.desktop

Add the following;

You can now launch Frozen Bubble by Applications —> Games —> Frozen Bubble
or by typing frozen-bubble in the terminal.

Enjoy!