I have searched for an answer but no luck, so it's time to pop the question.

Running Fedora Core 3 with SELinux enabled. Logged on as root.

Installed Civilisation Call to Power - a game ported from Windows by Loki in 1999.

Can see the supposed executable called civctp but get "command not found" when I try to run it in a terminal window using BASH.

I have confirmed that the file is marked as executable and that I have execute permission (chmod 777).

The installation was from the manufacturer's CD. No compiling from source was involved.

Huh!?

Try to run it as:

Check that the binary is in your PATH. Else, execute directly with /path/to/command.

Thanks to the 2 people who have replied so quickly.

I have tried running it directly from within the folder where it lives, but no result. Still reports 'command not found'.

It may be relevant that the 'which' command fails to find it i.e. which civctp.

I dont' understand the suggestion to run it as CODE civctp. Can you please explain further?

Thanks.

If you're cd'ing to the directory you need the ./ in front of civctp

./civctp

or you can do it like this

/path/to/civctp

Now we're getting somewhere. At least it seems to try and run, but then trips over its own feet.

[dmorrell@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/local/games/CivCTP/
[dmorrell@localhost CivCTP]$ ./civctp
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
Killed

This occurs when I run it as root from BASH outside of KDE, or when I run it as a normal user (above) from a BASH terminal window inside KDE.

So, who's got the next grain of wisdom to lead me along the trail to playing Civ Call to Power on Linux? This is a precondition to keeping the family peace if I finally dump Windows....

try installing SDL, its a graphics library, like DirectX.

http://www.libsdl.org/index.php

By the way, in answer to your implied question earlier, "code" is just a word that prefaces text offset from the rest of a reply by way of making it look more like terminal readout, script, or other text separate from but related to the reply. You can find it among the HTML options when you post.

Thanks for the suggestion re SDL. It's pretty black and white when you get to the site. Posting this here for anyone else reading the thread who might wish to know.

"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."