FreeOrion

started out with a tar that self labelled as 0.4.7, got 0.4.5 when compile was done. what do I have to do to get 0.4.7? Things go wrong here: sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ freeorion The program 'freeorion' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install fre...

sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball $ mkdir freeorion_build sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball $ cd freeorion_build sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ cmake ../freeorion CMake Error: The source directory "/home/sean/src-tarball/freeorion" does not exist. please note that carefully following inst...

I plan to cycle through all the above suggestions to get things right.
Thanks

Intriguing. Have you tried to purge previous FO installations? I would try that, apt-get purge freeorion (and anything related and unneeded, so do autoremove afterwards), and delete every freeorion folder (just in case), then start from scratch with the compilation instructions (download source fro...

started out with a tar that self labelled as 0.4.7, got 0.4.5 when compile was done. what do I have to do to get 0.4.7? details from that make: [100%] Linking CXX executable freeorion [100%] Built target freeorion sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ freeorion The program 'freeorion' is curr...

sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball $ mkdir freeorion_build sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball $ cd freeorion_build sean@seanlap ~/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ cmake ../freeorion CMake Error: The source directory "/home/sean/src-tarball/freeorion" does not exist. please note that carefully following instr...

It did work, the compile. I got version 0.4.5 not 4.7
however having gone through it I will try to destroy anything not 4.7 and try again, with hope of success.
Thanks again

Thanks that worked!

update, tried again.And will try yet again. This is what I got. What I could do is to install one of the missing executables(cppcheck), but not the other two. sean@seanlap ~/Downloads/freeorion/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ cmake .. -- Setting build type to 'Release' as none was specified. -- Build ...

well I straighten out the mess I made of the relationships of the folders,
but want to go off line for a while
Thanks for all the help.

now for a hopeful simplicity, I took all the tarball stuff and dropped it down a directory, same directory as tarball. This should make things easier and does change the instructions from cmake .. to cmake . I now get this error message: sean@seanlap ~/FreeOrion tarball $ cmake . -- Setting build ty...

Mint 17.1 had limits on boost would not go higher then 1.55. 1.565+ needed.
I am working on Mint 18.3 which would work. Allows boost 1.58
Posting a warning to the effect, mainly that mint 17.1 or earlier will not work.

and
Edit: Mint 18.3 has the needed high numbered Cmake. Mint 17.1 did not.

seems I need to boost my boost too. sean@Slaptop ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:boost-latest/ppa [sudo] password for sean: 'This PPA does not support trusty' Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support trusty''. Dang! Ok checking the next level. As the laptop is older than the linux desktop, it mig...

I can not find files on my computer with ogg*.make.
I did find a forum section noting that ogg is being considered for being faded out.

This list http://freeorion.org/index.php/Compile_In_Linux Needs to modify the cmake minimums sean@Slaptop ~/FreeOrion tarball/src-tarball/freeorion_build $ cmake .. CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required): CMake 3.1 or higher is required. You are running version 2.8.12.2 -- Configur...