Looks like an Ubuntu-specific issue. What program does the icon point to? Is it executable? Can you start freecol from the command line? You know the drill.
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I am unsure I understand what you mean, sorry I am a bit retarded with computers and still new to linux...
So I typed a find command on freecol (find freecol) and it gave me this:
/usr/games/freecol
here is also the log file the game created which might be useful:
I tried to find the options.xml file in the .freecol folder and elsewhere and it was not there, not sure if it is created on startup of the program though....
cheers
Louis
FreeCol game version: 0.7.2
FreeCol protocol version: 0.1.4
Java vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java version: 1.6.0_06
Java WM name: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Java WM vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java WM version: 10.0-b22
OS name: Linux
OS architecture: amd64
OS version: 2.6.24-19-generic
net.sf.freecol.FreeCol getLocale
WARNING: Exception while loading options.
Fri Oct 10 10:24:23 EDT 2008
Thread ID: 10
Stack trace:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/louis/.freecol/options.xml (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at java.io.FileReader.<init>(FileReader.java:55)
at net.sf.freecol.FreeCol.getLocale(FreeCol.java:322)
at net.sf.freecol.FreeCol.main(FreeCol.java:128)
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The file should be there. You could try creating an empty file. I'm not sure whether that will work, however. I will also try to fix the code. There is no reason to throw an exception, since we can use default settings.
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I installed the game on Ubuntu
I installed it using the add/remove programs list, now when I double click the icon nothing happens at all, any ideas?
Looks like an Ubuntu-specific issue. What program does the icon point to? Is it executable? Can you start freecol from the command line? You know the drill.
I actually got the same problem, installed the game in ubuntu but it does not start. When I type freecol in the terminal i get this message
You need to assign more memory to the JVM. Restart FreeCol with:
java -Xmx128M -jar FreeCol.jar
and when I type the command I get
Unable to access jarfile freecol.jar
I have sun java 6 and its openjdk tool installed
thanks for the help,
great game by the way
cheers
Please use "which find" to determine what "freecol" actually means in this context.
I am unsure I understand what you mean, sorry I am a bit retarded with computers and still new to linux...
So I typed a find command on freecol (find freecol) and it gave me this:
/usr/games/freecol
here is also the log file the game created which might be useful:
I tried to find the options.xml file in the .freecol folder and elsewhere and it was not there, not sure if it is created on startup of the program though....
cheers
Louis
FreeCol game version: 0.7.2
FreeCol protocol version: 0.1.4
Java vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java version: 1.6.0_06
Java WM name: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Java WM vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java WM version: 10.0-b22
OS name: Linux
OS architecture: amd64
OS version: 2.6.24-19-generic
net.sf.freecol.FreeCol getLocale
WARNING: Exception while loading options.
Fri Oct 10 10:24:23 EDT 2008
Thread ID: 10
Stack trace:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/louis/.freecol/options.xml (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at java.io.FileReader.<init>(FileReader.java:55)
at net.sf.freecol.FreeCol.getLocale(FreeCol.java:322)
at net.sf.freecol.FreeCol.main(FreeCol.java:128)
The file should be there. You could try creating an empty file. I'm not sure whether that will work, however. I will also try to fix the code. There is no reason to throw an exception, since we can use default settings.
Ah, this is an old problem that has already been fixed.
It can't be that old as I still cannot open Freecol 7.4 on to my apple lap top. I downloaded the game again yesterday!