Notices

If you want move the icons directory somewhere, move it to /opt. MyDocs is not unix filesystem and package installations and especially upgrades are going to fail

Ah yeah, I misspoke, I actually moved them to /opt/shared-icons/

OK, now I am having only one more question
Wanted to install it via the application manager but it tells me it can not be installed.

Do I use dpkg instead? Would be thankful for instructions.

Thanks,
Corwin

Yep, the Application Manager can't install .deb files anymore (I believe).

To install right now... you need to drop down to the terminal, get root privileges, and do "sudo dpkg -i freeciv*" -- in the same directory as the .deb files.

As soon as Garage is back up, I'll try to get a version into Extras (well, devel or testing anyway) so you don't need to do that..

excellent news, cheers.

Freeciv is committed to Extras-Devel now and built successfully -- it should make it into the actual repository soon. Merry Christmas.

Ugh. I'm sure this is user error, but I've managed to install via application manager from extras-devel and got the following error: "unable to install freeciv"

Status is broken, but able to update. I am unable to uninstall or update freeciv without error.

Dropping to command line got me this message: unable to execute old post-removal script, no such file or directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

same problem here (exactly like he explained it)

I've got the same problem as well. I have no idea what to do..?

I took a look at the rules file and i'm not sure what's causing the broken install, but there seems to be some weirdness with the optification. It seems that the .desktop file and icons are all put in /opt, which afaik isn't going to work as intended. Without comparing the previous rules to the present rules it's hard to say if any of the changes for optification are causing the break, but it's possible. There's actually one point where it looks like a file that shouldn't exist in that location is being moved during install, but i have rather poor comprehension as of yet in the arcane languages of make and its ilk.