How do I make it run?

[JimW]

Okay, so I've theoretically got things going.

I'm using 1.14.0, on a KDE desktop, on Mandrake 9.1.

Running "civserver" in the Terminal gets me the following:

$ civserver
~/.freeciv ~
This is the server for Freeciv version 1.14.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at http://www.freeciv.org/
0: bind failed: Address already in use.

Running 'civserver' in the KDE "Run Command" box nets me nothing.

Running civclient in the terminal gives me:

civclient
2: LANGUAGE="en-ca"

After a bit, a nice GUI window shows up, with a window offering the two buttons mentioned in the instructions, "Metaserver" and "Connect."

Since I want to play solo, at least for a bit, I hit connect. I am left with the underlying window, which includes some dropdown menus, including "Help."

However, none of them tell me what I need to do to actually get something going, Settlers going out settling, so on.

On the clear understanding that I have not too much experience at these things, can someone give me a hint? Or twelve?

The README seems to assume that everyting is going fine I hit a command. However, something isn't.

I have a suspicion that I've started up a game and can't start another until I quit the first one. But how do I do that?

Or am I wrong altogether?

Thanks,

Jim

[Per]

Try 'ps aux |grep civserver' to find any wayward servers.

Try 'civserver -p 99999' to start a server on port 99999 instead of the normal port. Remember to use the same port when connecting in the client.

[JimW]

Thanks

I get the following for the grep:

ps aux |grep civserver
jimw 3096 0.0 0.1 1724 604 pts/1 R 11:27 0:00 grep civserver


Unfortunately, I haven't a clue what it means.

As for 'civserver -p 99999, yeah, that started me up, in the terminal, but I couldn't start because there were "not enough players."

I stayed up too late last night wrestling with Freeciv. I suspect the answer to this one is in the README that I've got sitting beside me

(Of course, if you know it offhand, I wouldn't mind if you tell me. I've got a bunch of writing to get through today, before I can justify fooling around with games this evening.)

Thanks again,

Jim

[Per]

Apparently some other program is occupying the Freeciv network port.

You need to connect to the server with a client before you 'start' the game, you know... once you connect a player will be created for you and you can start.