[Freeciv] Re: freeciv installation problem........

[Per I Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:43:28PM -0600, Thomas wrote:
> > FreeCiv: Hello. I am having problems with the freeciv installation and
> > hope that you may have some ideas/tips. I am using SuSE 7.0. I
> > originally unpacked, compiled and installed the source code and it
> > seemed that the install went okay. But when I tried the ser and civ
> > commands I got command unrecognized errors...I then
> > decided...hmm...maybe I'll just use the binary for SuSe so I downloaded
> > the .rpm.....When I tried rpm -i free-civ-1.11.0-1.i386.rpm I got the
> > error message: freeciv-1.11.0-1 is already installed. I then tried the
> > rpm --erase command but got the error: freeciv-1.11.0-1 is NOT
> > installed. I then manually deleted all files with "freeciv" in them but
> > this did not help....same errors. I then formatted my harddrive in ext2
> > ( blank harddrive, I checked ) and re-installed SuSE. Surprise !! I am
> > still getting the error "freeciv-1.11.0-1 is already installed" when I
> > try to install and the error "freeciv-1.11.0-1 is NOT installed" when I
> > try to uninstall.....Any ideas....? Thanks.   --- Thomas Vassell
>
> Please post the output of "rpm -qa|grep -i freeciv" and "rpm -q freeciv".

Doesn't SuSe have freeciv in their distro? In which case it is sheer
stupidity for us to keep an ancient SuSe RPM on our download page.

Yours,
Per

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