Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

so... any fixes for those of us who still can't get the game to start and cannot get it to uninstall properly?

I've been through everything on this thread and others.I can get the n900 to think it's uninstalled even though the icon remains in the list of installed apps whenyou press 'more'. It will let me install it again and the option to uninstall appears, but the icon never goes no matter what you do.

Every time I think Imve done something new and fixed it it to work it just does the same thing. First screen loads up but when you hit start game nothing happens. The small options window dissappears. The latest thing I tried was to uninstall again and reinstall from x terminal in the order -data,server,client. I thought I discovered something when it told me the folder usr/share/man/man6/civserver.6 dpesnt exist when intalling the server. I uninstalled and created that directory through mc and it all seemed to install properly. BUT same end result.game wont start.

Another thing I noticed is there are files called civ and civclient (NOT freeciv but civ).is that right?

sorry for the long post but I wanted to try and provide as much info as I could. I installed it about 2 weeks ago.only got n900 on about 8th of )anuary I think it was

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

This sounds like a different problem than before. The man page thing is a false lead -- it's not needed, and I should see if I can stop it from installing since Maemo purges the man pages anyway (why it isn't there when it goes to remove it.) Civclient and the like are the right names for the binaries, so there's nothing wrong there.

I'm trying to reproduce this now -- thank you for the detailed information. If you could try something, if you get to the screen where you hit start screen and hit nothing, but just wait, does it close on its own?

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

hi. thanks for the reply. Tried that one already:). Left it on for about an hour and came back to it, incase it was just taking a long tie to load, but screen was still the same.

Something good that came out of this is that I've learned the file structure of maemo, and learned a few tricks on x terminal.
I've spent hours looking through files on midnight commander trying to track down some las civ file somewhere, but the icon still remains on the list of apps, and it's on the list of things to download when I look, so some part thinks it's installed, and another part thinks it isn't.
Does anyone know where the n900 gets those icons from? How does it generate the list, it must look somewhere when you click 'more', for a set of icons to display. Perhaps there is a stray file in there that I haven't found. There MUST be a folder containing the icon at least.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

/usr/share/applications/hildon/ for the .desktop file that makes an entry for the app in your apps list. May be moved by catorize/mymenu (not sure).
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ for the icons, generally.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

thank you.
there is indeed, in the first place you listed, a file called freeciv-client-sdl.desktop
the icon was in 48x48/apps. (freeciv-client.png
I will just go and delete them and see what happens....

yaay. its gone from the list.

right.i wonder if I'm brave enough to try installing agan from scratch lol.
which download is working for everybody?

The lure of playing freeciv on my n900 might be too great to resist . I had been, in the meantime plaaying civ1 through dosbox,which has been going great. Took a little bit of setting up but with the knowledge I learned so far it wasn't too hard.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

I just installed freeciv from extras-devel and it runs out of the box. Did the developers change it, so you don't need bash anymore?
Only thing to mention: it does not get put into "Games"-Folder if you use the categorise-app

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

well, I finally took a chance and downloaded it again. Same thing happened. Looed like it installed normally,started it up and it loads, then when you press 'start game' the little window dissappears and nothing happens.
I just don't get it. Is there something totally obvious I'm not doing?

I also thought I'd try uninstalling it again to see if that would work normally, but the same thing happened there again-it 'looks' like it uninstalls but the icon is still there in the apps list and there are files left all over the place when you go look.

My theory is there is some file somewhere I haven't found yet that needs removing before it will completely think it is uninstalled, then it might install properly? Well it's just a guess.

Something else I noticed was when I installed it was the icon was just a blue square and not the golden globe type icon form before.

Any suggestion appreciated.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

Thank you. This did the trick of removing the icon!

FreeCiv
 

First of all,my intention was not to make another topic.i AM aware that there is another topic,but for some reason im not allowed to post there.So i installed FreeCiv played it for a while,then i got bored.I uninstalled it but the icon remained in the "More" section.Well i did read the other topic,but with all the posts there im kinda lost.Could some please try to explain how to remove the icon from the "More" section.

Thx in advance

Re: FreeCiv
 

30 Views and no reply?Ah come on guys,someone help me out?