This is what I get

~ $ /usr/games/pingus --datadir /usr/share/games/pingus/data/ --fullscreen -g 800x480
Welcome to Pingus 0.7.2!
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data path: /usr/share/games/pingus/data/
language: English (en)
font encoding: iso-8859-1
sound support: enabled
music support: enabled
resolution: 800x480
fullscreen: enabled

Pingus: Standard exception caught!:
Parse error in file '/home/user/.pingus/savegames/savegames.scm' line 0: file doesn't start with '('
~ $

I also installed libsdl-mixer1.2 i

It's a shame cos I was really enjoying it