============================================================================== Freeciv 1.12.0 Slackware packages (Nov 25 2001) notes ============================================================================== Packaged by Stepan Roh This README is stored in freeciv-common package as file named /usr/doc/freeciv-1.12.0/SLACKWARE_PACKAGE. These packages were built on Slackware 8.0. They won't work on previous versions of Slackware as distribution changed a lot between 7.1 and 8.0. If you are using 3rd party or very old official packages (freeciv.tgz), official 1.11.4 or first version of the official 1.12.0 (Aug 18 2001) packages, read "Changes" and "Upgrade from older packages" below first. Installation ------------ Freeciv is divided into following packages: freeciv-common-1.12.0-i386-2.tgz contains files (like locales, data files and documentation) needed by all other packages freeciv-server-1.12.0-i386-2.tgz contains Freeciv server freeciv-client-xaw3d-1.12.0-i386-2.tgz contains Freeciv Xaw3D client freeciv-client-gtk-1.12.0-i386-2.tgz contains Freeciv Gtk+ client Use installpkg (as root) to install desired package. Only one client package is needed. Client binaries are civclient-xaw3d and civclient-gtk. Last installed client package will set symlink to civclient. Xaw3D client requires xfree86 and xaw3d packages from X disk set to be installed. GTK+ client requires xfree86 packages from X disk set and glib, gtkplus and imlib packages from GTK disk set to be installed. Everything is installed under /usr hierarchy. Upgrade from older packages --------------------------- Because there are so many versions of Freeciv packages around, I suggest to remove them before installing new packages. Beginning with this release upgrade will be much easier. Use following commands (as root) to get rid of all those old packages: # cd /var/log/packages; removepkg *freeciv* Then proceed to normal installation as describe above. Notes ----- Freeciv server sources has been tweaked according to documentation to include readline support (because Slackware 8.0 has readline-4.1 which is no longer supported by Freeciv). Changes ------- Starting with this release, packages have correct format of long names compatible with pkgtools-8.0 from not-yet-released Slackware 8.1 (9.0?). Bugs and suggestions -------------------- Bugs and suggestions relating to Freeciv play should be mailed to bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx. Any questions or bugs regarding Slackware packages should be mailed to slack-freeciv@xxxxxxxx. See http://www.freeciv.org for further information on Freeciv.