[Freeciv-Dev] ANNOUNCE: Slcakware-10 packages for Freeciv 1.14.2

[Mitáš Martin <mitas@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all.

As was announced by Stepan Roh on Monday I'm new maintainer of 
Slackware freeciv packages.

I've just uploaded new Slackware packages for Freeciv 1.14.2 to
upload.freeciv.org. Following files have been uploaded:

freeciv-1.14.2.slackware.txt
freeciv-client-gtk2-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz
freeciv-client-gtk2-1.14.2-i386-1.txt
freeciv-client-xaw3d-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz
freeciv-client-xaw3d-1.14.2-i386-1.txt
freeciv-common-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz
freeciv-common-1.14.2-i386-1.txt
freeciv-common-sound-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz
freeciv-common-sound-1.14.2-i386-1.txt
freeciv-server-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz
freeciv-server-1.14.2-i386-1.txt

freeciv-1.14.2.slackware.txt should be renamed to README. *.txt files are
for users of old Slackware package management scripts and should not be linked 
from Download page on web. 

These packages were built on Slackware 10.0 and I did not test them on
older distributions. It may work on 9.1 however. If you have any questions,
suggestions or notes feel free to contact me on mity_at_srnet.cz.

Contents of freeciv-1.14.2.slackware.txt follows at the end of this mail.

Have a nice day.

Martin Mitas
<mity_at_srnet.cz>



==============================================================================
Freeciv 1.14.2 Slackware packages (24 Oct 2004) notes
==============================================================================
Packaged by Martin Mitas <mity@xxxxxxxx>

This README is stored in freeciv-common package as file named
/usr/doc/freeciv-1.14.2/README.slackware.

These packages were built on Slackware 10.0. They may not work on older
versions of Slackware.

Installation
------------

Following packages are available:

freeciv-common-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz        contains files (like locales, data
                                        files and documentation) needed by all
                                        other packages 
freeciv-server-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz        contains Freeciv server
freeciv-client-xaw3d-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz  contains Freeciv Xaw3D client
freeciv-client-gtk2-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz   contains Freeciv Gtk+ 2.x client
freeciv-common-sound-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz  contains sounds (optional for clients)

Only one client package is needed. Client binaries are civclient-xaw3d and
civclient-gtk2. Last installed client package will create symlink civclient.

Xaw3D client requires xfree86 and xaw3d packages to be installed. GTK+ client
requires xfree86 and gtk+2 packages. Both clients require sdl package
to be installed.

Everything is installed under /usr hierarchy.

Installation (for upgrade see following chapter) is done with command (run
it as root):

  installpkg <package>

For example:

  installpkg freeciv-common-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz

Upgrade from previous package version
-------------------------------------

Execute as root:

  upgradepkg <package>

For example:

  upgradepkg freeciv-common-1.14.2-i386-1.tgz

Upgrade from older or 3rd-party packages
----------------------------------------

Because there are so many versions of Freeciv packages around, I suggest to
remove them before installing new packages.

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.

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.