Looking for idiot's guide for installing FreeCiv 2.5 in Linux Mint

Post by **Corbeau** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:45 pm

Howdy. Basically, it's all in the title: I'm a fairly new Linux user and I'm looking for a way to do, well, ^---that.

The default Software Manager is offering me version 2.4. The Readme/Install documentation with the downloaded FreeCiv source code is a bit longish and when following it blindly I end up with:

% ./configure

....lots of stuff looking good, but ending with:

configure: error: libcurl development files required

After that I *did* install libcurl (it says"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.10" and what is needed is "libcurl version 7.12.1 or better")

However, after installing libcurl, staring Configure gets me again:

configure: error: libcurl development files required

....

Any ideas? Different approaches?

chem · Post by **chem** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:32 pm

You've probably installed the compiled libcurl, but you will also need the source code headers.
I'm no familiar with Linux mint, but this should work: http://askubuntu.com/questions/78183/in ... rary#78185.

You may be missing other dependencies as well, you should google them or just try and to install the package with -dev suffix

Post by **Corbeau** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:51 pm

Ok, that did the trick, and now:

configure: error: can not build any of the supported clients

(after a series of checks that ended with a "no")

I saw a mention somewhere of the possibility of installing an already compiled package for FreeCiv? How realistic would that be?

Post by **Corbeau** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:27 pm

Ok, problem solved (it seems).

If anyone encounters similar problem, go here:

http://linuxg.net/install-freeciv-on-ubuntu-via-getdeb/