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Easiest is just to install Ubuntu's freeciv (yes, freeciv is part of most linux distributions). That's not the latest freeciv as we ship it, but rather the version Ubuntu took when they released their version of the distribution. Otherwise you have to build freeciv yourself from the sources (not so hard as it sounds, in linux)Arbogast wrote:I found an oldish Linux-Freeciv somewhere, but I would rather have a 2.4.0-RC2. (like in Win)
It's a bit rough (both the build procedure and the end product), but here's first version: http://meta.freeciv.org/iso/cazfi wrote:I've started working on the customized Ubuntu CD/USB-image with freeciv included.
that occured in the first release. I might as well copy the Freeciv files to my existing installation...Well, had we suitable server, I would setup Jenkins for continuous integration, but I haven't planned setting up anything in OBS. Syntron might have something set up for SuSE builds. My server does nightly freeciv build (autotools level - no .deb packages) but its only purpose is to send an email to freeciv-dev list in case of build failure.louis94 wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to use a PPA or Open Build Service ?
Building is not the problem here, though if we used OBS for builds in general, integrating this too would make sense.louis94 wrote:I'm willing to help Linux users get up-to-date Freeciv builds... Let me know if I can do something so work isn't done twice.
I have uploaded new version (and will remove the old in a couple of days to save serverspace)cazfi wrote:It's a bit rough (both the build procedure and the end product), but here's first version: http://meta.freeciv.org/iso/cazfi wrote:I've started working on the customized Ubuntu CD/USB-image with freeciv included.
For installing it to USB-stick, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Insta ... omUSBStick
Use that for "Try Ubuntu" -option only. As freeciv is installed with autotools, and not from debian(/ubuntu) -package, "Install Ubuntu" would (likely) produce a system where package management doesn't know about existence of the freeciv despite freeciv files being there.
Ubuntu is 13.10 with latest updates as of today pulled in. Freeciv is latest revision from S2_4 (it has some bugfixes compared to 2.4.0).
There's gtk2-, gtk3-, and sdl-clients. Only one of them (freeciv-gtk2 in case of S2_4) has desktop file, called simply "freeciv". That one you can run from the desktop menus, for the others you have to start some terminal program (xterm, for example) and run the program by typing its name (freeciv-gtk3, freeciv-sdl) there.
