#3375 Installation instructions.

[James Kuyper]

I've downloaded Freecol 1.2.0 to my Ubuntu Linux system. But I can't figure out how to install it. I looked for instructions in the package release notice. I looked for a file named "README", or any other names that might hint at being instructions. I looked for an installation script. I found nothing that I recognized. I notice that I posted a similar question to one of the discussion groups about version 1.1.0 18 months ago, and never got a response.

[fouss]

Hi,

in Ubuntu you can do

apt install freecol

to install the game system-wide.

If you got the sources, you should checkout the README file
and most probably you will have to build them first by running

ant

and then run the jar with

java -Xmx2G -jar FreeCol.jar

[Lone_Wolf]

Depending on the ubuntu version James uses installing with apt may result in an older freecol version then 1.2.0 .

Assuming you have java 11 or later installed there is an alternative :

Download freecol-1.2.0-installer.jar

and run java -jar freecol-1.2.0-installer.jar or similar .

https://www.freecol.org/download.html has more info .

[James Kuyper]

On 12/14/24 16:53, Lone_Wolf wrote:

Depending on the ubuntu version James uses installing with apt may
result in an older freecol version then 1.2.0 .

That is correct. To be precise, it installed 0.11.6, which is the same
version I already had installed.

Assuming you have java 11 or later installed there is an alternative :

Download freecol-1.2.0-installer.jar

and run |java -jar freecol-1.2.0-installer.jar| or similar .

I made the mistake of opening that file from the GUI, which range the
archiver application, which just extracted all of the files without
doing anything with them. I didn't notice the problem, I was just
confused by it.
When I did run java on the installer, I discovered that I had an older
version of java installed, which didn't work with the installer. I just
installed java 23, and ran the installer, and it works. Wow - you've
made a lot of changes since 0.11.6!

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