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Do you plan to place new Freeciv version in the Ubuntu repository? Presently, there is 2.6.2 version.

Impish already has 2.6.3... New edition final freeze is April 14 and currently it includes 2.6.6, I don't think it will be updated to 3.0. Actually, IDK how Freeciv new versions get to repos,

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In Ubuntu 20.04 repository, there is Freeciv version 2.6.2. I don't think I'll update Ubuntu to 22.04 on April 21. The 20.04 version is supported till April of 2025. So I play Freeciv 2.6.2 so far.

I have looked in the web, to update a program in the Ubuntu repository one needs to open a ticket on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountmanager
Use report a bug link.

They don't push non-security updates to released distros. I think you need just to download Freeciv sources from Github and compile them. You don't have to install them if you can live without i18n. It's not that difficult, I have several versions on my computer this way.

Compiling and Uploading the .deb file is the simpler way. I have downloaded the sources and the compilation is a problem for me.

Mahler wrote:I have downloaded the sources and the compilation is a problem for me.

Follow the guide. You'll need to "sudo apt-get install" some *-dev packages that the compiler will tell you it can't work without at its first run of "sudo make".

I used installation script, It had compiled freeciv after installation of -dev libraries.

I found nice that Xubuntu 23.04 contains Freeciv 3.0.6 in the repository.

Ubuntu derives its .deb packaging of freeciv from Debian, so Debian's freeciv package page is usually very relevant for the next Ubuntu release: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/freeciv