Kroddn: first thanks for taking the time to reply. I really want to try this game out.
Alright so the tar. is fine.
I used:
cd
mkdir -p games
cd games
instead hoping that would make the process easier however now I have this error message:
undefined symbol: mng_free_ani_save
and the out put from the terminal is thus:
niall@kronos:~$ cd /tmp
niall@kronos:/tmp$ wget
http://psitronic.de/div/FO/lastest.tar.gz--12:41:02--
http://psitronic.de/div/FO/lastest.tar.gz => `lastest.tar.gz.2'
Resolving psitronic.de... 87.118.100.37
Connecting to psitronic.de|87.118.100.37|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 59,054,889 (56M) [application/x-tar]
100%[====================================>] 59,054,889 247.03K/s ETA 00:00
12:46:25 (179.19 KB/s) - `lastest.tar.gz.2' saved [59054889/59054889]
niall@kronos:/tmp$ cd
niall@kronos:~$ mkdir -p games
niall@kronos:~$ cd games
niall@kronos:~/games$ tar xfz /tmp/lastest.tar.gz
niall@kronos:~/games$ /usr/local/games/freeorion/freeorion
bash: /usr/local/games/freeorion/freeorion: No such file or directory
niall@kronos:~/games$ games/freeorion/freeorion
bash: games/freeorion/freeorion: No such file or directory
niall@kronos:~/games$ freeorion/freeorion
freeorion/freeorion: symbol lookup error: freeorion/freeorion: undefined symbol: mng_free_ani_save
niall@kronos:~/games$ cd
niall@kronos:~$ md5sum lastest.tar.gz
md5sum: lastest.tar.gz: No such file or directory
niall@kronos:~$ /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeOrion
bash: /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeOrion: No such file or directory
niall@kronos:~$ /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion
/home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion: symbol lookup error: /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion: undefined symbol: mng_free_ani_save
niall@kronos:~$ /home/niall/games/freeorion
bash: /home/niall/games/freeorion: is a directory
niall@kronos:~$ /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion
/home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion: symbol lookup error: /home/niall/games/freeorion/freeorion: undefined symbol: mng_free_ani_save
This is proving to be very annoying. I'm not why a simple installer has not been made by someone.
Not that I'm complaining I just curious though I suspect it might have something to do with people having lives.
Thanks for your help.