I got the game going, with the apt-get method mentioned on the Wiki. My board says 42. Rc1 always, which might have been played once upon a time.

As far as I can tell, this is useless for playing a game out of a book, normally the simplest thing a chess game should be able to do. There is no way to go back to earlier moves in the game, the minimum one would need to be able to use this thing for any normal chess activities including looking at moves that have been played. I am currently going through the excellent Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess, with a lot of games played in 1895 and thereabouts; it would have been nice to use Miniature for that. The interface is pretty -- if that's all someone cares about, this is fine.