Hardware acceleration:
I dont know if it is really necessary, but just to be sure, I wanted hardware acceleration on.
In root terminal:
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glxinfo | grep rendering
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direct rendering: Yes
My ati video-card hardware seems accelerated automatically during install. Good.
/usr/apt/sources.list
I am using the default /etc/apt/sources.list. To check your sources.list:
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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
Perhaps you need to adjust your sources.list with an editor like nano (or any other you prefer) like so:
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nano /etc/apt/sources.list
To be able to get the latest versions from the repositories we should now 'update' like so:
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apt-get update
For compiling:
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apt-get install build-essential
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apt-get install zlib1g-dev gtk+2.0 autoconf libpangomm-1.4-dev libpng++-dev libiconv-hook-dev libimlib2-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libglib2.0-dev automake pkg-config libatk1.0-dev
To create some place to put files temporarily:
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cd /home
mkdir freecivtemp
cd freecivtemp
To download and install some freeciv fonts:
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wget http://download.gna.org/freeciv/requirements/cjk_fonts.tar.bz2
tar jxfv cjk_fonts.tar.bz2
rm cjk_fonts.tar.bz2
rm COPYING.*
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freeciv
cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freeciv
rm *.ttf
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fc-cache -fv
To download, compile and install freeciv 2.3.4:
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wget http://download.gna.org/freeciv/stable/freeciv-2.3.4.tar.bz2
tar jxfv freeciv-2.3.4.tar.bz2
rm freeciv-2.3.4.tar.bz2
cd freeciv-2.3.4
./configure
make
make install
Remove temporary download folder:
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cd /home
rm -f -r freecivtemp
Check under Applications, Games, Freeciv to start Freeciv 2.3.4!
or, start from any normal, non-root terminal with command:
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freeciv-gtk2