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6 freeciv-mp-gtk2, freeciv-mp-gtk3, freeciv-mp-qt, freeciv-mp-cli - Cus‐
7 tom content installers for the Freeciv game
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10 freeciv-mp-XXX [ -d|--debug level_number ] [ -h|--help ] [ -i|--install
11 URL ] [ -L|--List URL ] [ -p|--prefix directory ] [ -v|--version ]
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14 Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each
15 player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ul‐
16 timate goal: To become the greatest civilization.
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18 Players of Civilization II® by Microprose® should feel at home, since
19 one aim of Freeciv is to have compatible rules.
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21 Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusi‐
22 asts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out
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25 This is the custom content installer program - see also freeciv-
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28 This program allows users to select and download add-on content ("mod‐
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30 the Freeciv team, or by using a URL obtained by other means. It takes
31 care of installing the files in the correct place under the user's home
32 directory for this version of Freeciv; it does not install anything for
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35 freeciv-mp-cli is a version of the modpack installer usable from com‐
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40 This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details re‐
41 garding the operation of freeciv-mp-XXX see README.modpack_installer in
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46 All options have a short form (single hyphen and single letter) and a
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50 -d level_number, --debug level_number
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80 freeciv modpack installer installs files to the following subdirecto‐
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96 modpacks' dependencies are already satisfied. It is not used by the
97 other Freeciv programs, and can fairly safely be removed if it gets out
98 of sync with the actual state of installed modpacks. These are text
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137 May 24th 2014 FREECIV(6)