[Freeciv] Re: rpm installation

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John dillick <jdillick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm just typing:
> rpm -i freeciv-server-1_9_0-3_i386.rpm
> 
> This initially executes and gives me:
> banner civ civclient civserver ser
> in my /usr/games directory
> These apparently don't do anything.

What do you mean by "These apparently don't do anything"?
That is, how are you trying to run them, and what happens?

(My wild guess: you are trying to run them as root, and are
doing so in some gui way which doesn't show you the error
message which would explain the error of your ways.)

-- David