FreeCiv

[Vadi]

I already asked getdeb to compile a package

It was pretty quick for me and didn't complain.

[Vadi]

Gotta love getdeb.net - (click)

[himasaram]

Can anyone get this to work?

There is no .deb, and the source code points to a non-existent INSTALL file

What do you mean by non-existent? It's located in the root directory of the source code. Are you sure you downloaded the tarball from sourceforge.net?

[Vadi]

There was an INSTALL.cygwin, but no INSTALL itself.

I installed it fine with the standard ./configure, make, and sudo make install.

[Perfect Storm]

A

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential
sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev gettext libintl-perl bison bcp xlibs-dev x-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libreadline5-dev


cd ~/Desktop
tar jxfv freeciv-2.1.0.tar.bz2
cd freeciv-2.1.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

should do it.

[Loki.Satyr]

Distibution: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Package: freeciv-client-gtk
If the game does not start try:

civclient-gtk --Plugin sdl

If you get the console error message:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

then run:

killall pulseaudio
civclient-gtk --Plugin sdl