Re: [aclug-L] Freeciv and a stupid person...

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What you need to do is set the FREECIV_DATADIR environment variable to 
the path of your Freeciv data directory.  I'm not quite sure where
Freeciv's make install puts this by default.  The directory contains
files like helpdata.txt, intro.xpm, etc.  

To set the variable, use something like:

export FREECIV_DATADIR=/usr/local/freeciv/data

or whatever the proper directory is.

Note that you can add that line to /etc/profile so you don't have to
type it each time.

John

"Cory T. Lamb" <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hey how's it going?  First of all I'd like to give my compliments to John
> on the meeting, very informative!  
> Next I have a quick (I hope) Question.  
> 
> I have compiled freeciv and have gotten it's running fine except that I
> can't find docs on how to start a solo session and second of all when I
> type "civclient"  i get this error:
> 
> [1] 3674 [hawkeye@legoland hawkeye]$ 1: Using fallback resources - which
> is OK 0: Failed reading XPM file: data/tiles.xpm 0: The environment
> variable FREECIV_DATADIR is '' 0: Check if you got read permissions to the
> file
>                                                      
> Could someone explain that to me and help me do what ever it is that I
> need to do to get this running?
> 
> TIA,
> ~Cory
> 
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