freeciv 2.1.9

[Michalis]

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...





Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal:
To become the greatest civilization.



I've compiled only the gtk client because is less resource demanding than the sdl client. Works in 4.1.2, 4.2 and 4.3.1 tested in all of them.

Because I prefere to listen to my music rather than the game's sounds and because the sound of the game needs sdl mixer (I tend to dislike sdl) I have compiled it without sound. If anybody wants to play the game with the sound on then tell me and I will provide an update pet.

Of course as always there is a separate pet with the locales, and a libiconv pet which is necessary dependency.

freeciv game 2.1.9 8379K extracted

freeciv locales 2.1.9 12M extracted

libiconv-1.12-i486.pet - 1.3 Mb

Just in case the above links don't work you can find also the pets here thanks to sullysat

[battleshooter]

Nice. Good to see a new version of FreeCiv's finally been compiled. We've been stuck with 2.10 for ages. The pet you've posted, it's not actually in Chinese right?

Battleshooter

[Michalis]

Actually with the locales is in 31 languages. After all being Greek it would be difficult to read Chinese, as here what we are saying when something is not understandable: "this looks like Chinese to me"

Probably you have missed the 2.1.8 which I had compiled also.

FreeCiv is the only game I play once every 2-3 months and because of that I'm going to keep updated pets whenever there is new version.

[battleshooter]

Actually with the locales is in 31 languages. After all being Greek it would be difficult to read Chinese, as here what we are saying when something is not understandable: "this looks like Chinese to me"

Probably you have missed the 2.1.8 which I had compiled also.

FreeCiv is the only game I play once every 2-3 months and because of that I'm going to keep updated pets whenever there is new version.

Sounds great! Thanks. Also it's good to know the pet is available with so many languages, more puppians from different countries will be able to enjoy it

Battleshooter

[Basskicker]

Thanks man !

I was totally hooked to CIV2 > and this even looks better then that !

Great going > now to find a nice open source version of HOMM and i can enjoy myself for quite some hours with my puppy !

[Gedrean]

Hate to threadzombie, but the aforementioned pet cannot be downloaded from fileqube anymore. Anywhere else it can be mirrored?

[Michalis]

Thanks for the info I hadn't noticed it. If it won't be possible to download it in the next 2 days I'll upload it somewhere else, I just can't do it now.

[Gedrean]

Thanks!

[Michalis]

I uploaded the files to another hosting service so for the next 2 months propably everything will be ok.

[Gedrean]

Thank you so much. I haven't replied in a bit - because I"ve been ADDICTED TO FREECIV! lol

[sullysat]

I uploaded the files to another hosting service so for the next 2 months propably everything will be ok.

Michalis,

I've got some space on my domain if you'd like me to mirror it there. PM me and we can sort it out.

Sully

[sullysat]

Okay folks,

This game is now mirrored on my website. It took longer than I would have liked because I had to figure out that I can't just do quick ftp.

Instead I set up a page to host the programs that I'm storing. There will be more soon.

http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy.html

Enjoy,
Sully

[Michalis]

Thank you sullysat for the space

I've putted the link also in the first post.

[walter90]

I keep getting an error. The message says it fail to extract to the proper folder. I have to manually clean it up. What gives?

[Michalis]

I keep getting an error. The message says it fail to extract to the proper folder. I have to manually clean it up. What gives?

What do you mean? What gives what? Give something more if you want help.

Which puppy are you using?
Do you have enough space?
Does it install anything?
If yes do try in the terminal the next:

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su spot
civclient

What outputs?

[walter90]

I tried the command you gave and it sais no such command found

I run Puppy 4.2.1
329 MBs left in my save file

The problem is the tar.gz doesn't extract to its own folder. It just gets deposited in the .packages folder and that ends the process.

[Michalis]

That is then puppys' installer bug. I can't do anything (isn't compile mistake) except of helping you to workaround the problem. In both 4.1.2 and 4.3.0 works perfect for me.

1. Try to install it through the package manager, the install icon in the desktop.
2. Install it first time (move to the .package folder) and install it again, maybe it will finally push it
3. In /root/.packages/ you see the pet or the .tar.gz? If is the pet click on it there. Maybe also copy the pet there and click on it.
4. Open the tar.gz and install the files manually, and in the end type in the terminal "fixmenus"

[PupGeek]

I keep getting an error. The message says it fail to extract to the proper folder. I have to manually clean it up. What gives?

when you go to /root/.packages does the folder name match the .pet name exactly?

if not that is why you are getting that message... you can then install it manually from there too. Just copy that folder's contents to your /. I made a .pet that I later renamed and it does exactly that because the names do not match.

[Gedrean]

Problem - when running freeciv or server it runs as spot, which is fine -- but it cannot save, as presumably spot does not have the right permissions to write to wherever the savegame files are going.

Any idea how to fix?

[Michalis]

First of all it's impossible to run freeciv as root because always runs a server and it would be risky. The saved files are saved into folder /root/spot/.freeciv/saves/ by default. Also if you choose save as you can browse and save the file to any folder you want, as long as it's not a hidden one which means that it doesn't have a dot (fullstop) in the beginning.