[Freeciv] Re: Meta

[Cory Roberts <cr9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:

> > > How do you play a game on the meta server, I just can't seem to figure
> > > out how to join or start up a game, could anyone help?
>
> THe meta server is not a civserver.
>
> > After reading the help files some more it seems that I need to change the
> > envirment setting of Http_proxy,  but I can't find anywhere where it
> > tells you how to do this, im not much good at using Unix systems so I
> > could easily be something simple but I just don't know.
>
> The distribution has a README (http://www.freeciv.org/lxr/source/README)
> to explain all this, and the FAQ ((http://www.freeciv.org/faq/faq.html)
> has some more information.
>
> Are you still using 1.7.2?  How did you miss the references to this
> information?  If you can tell us, maybe it can be fixed.
>
> --
> Reinier Post

  Yes I read the README file, it said that you have to run civclient through
the Http_proxy enviroment. It'sjust that I have no idear how to do this. Im
using 1.8.3 at the moment but I do not have it installed, does this matter?