[Freeciv-Dev] Re: installation problems

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:01:32AM -0500, itay feldman wrote:

> configure: error: Need X11; perhaps try/adjust --x-libraries
> [root@www freeciv-1.7.2]#   

Looks like you're missing some X development libraries.

> [root@www freeciv]# FREECIV_DATADIR=/usr/games/freeciv/data; export FREECIV

You'd have to say export FREECIV_DATADIR here.

> [root@www freeciv]# civclient
> 1: failed reading help-texts
> 0: Failed reading XPM file: /usr/share/freeciv/tiles.xpm
> 0: The environment variable FREECIV_DATADIR is ''
> 0: Check if you got read permissions to the file
> [root@www freeciv]#    

First, please don't run things as root unless absolutely necessary.  This
include civclient and civserver.  Note that in a good setup, root's path
would probably not even include games.

Secondly, use the "civ" script to start it.