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spidey1170

03-23-2018, 01:56 AM

Came back after a year away and wanted to play EQ again but noticed that the install guides were all gone and replaced with an install script. I run a non-systemd distro (Void Linux) and the script will fail.

So, I went through line-by-line and installed all the dependencies, cloned the git repository and now I'm looking where to go next. Does anybody know of a valid guide that might exist outside the script?

Shin Noir

03-23-2018, 05:06 AM

spidey1170

03-23-2018, 01:08 PM

https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Development-Server-Setup
Above is likely most recent.

I also wrote something a long time ago.. http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?EQEmu_on_Debian_7_Virtualbox

Hop on the discord https://discord.gg/QHsm7CD and feel free to chat if any smaller hiccups.

Thank you. I started the cmake and then make last night and it compiled without a problem, so I"m happy about that! Now, just making sure I get all the right files in the right places is the hard part :).

Looking at your suggestions right after I enter this.

spidey1170

03-23-2018, 08:28 PM

Okay, how about large hiccups?

I read through the script and created the eqemu home directory in /opt. Then,, I created the subdirectories as indicated in the script.

Where it gets confusing is the perl script that is called, eqemu_server.pl. I tried following it, step-by-step, and received an error when trying to run it.

$> perl /opt/eqemu/server/eqemu_server.pl new_server

returns:

[eqemu_server.pl] No database connection found... Running without
[New Server] ERROR: You must run eqemu_server.pl in an empty directory
Can't open new_server: No such file or directory at /opt/eqemu/server/eqemu_server.pl line 214

The first one, I think I have to go through and put in my credentials, because it seems that the install script uses a text file to house variables, and of course, I didn't use that.

Hmm, maybe I could go through and create a script for Void based off these. Would that be easier?

Kinda' lost. Used to be easy to follow guides, now, not so much. Maybe, I'll just install the game, forget about running my own and play on somebody else's server...