Also, after a sleep, I remembered that I did have a copy of the file but Defender kept deleting it. Not sure why it didn't delete the ones I just downloaded. And yes, I also found that note that it was no longer needed. In Windows now, this gets executed from start bat and seems to do a similar process now.

spire.exe eqemu-server:launcher start

I'll also note that the docker image is effectively a linux install and no longer relies on that file, either. So there's a newer way of doing this, even if we still have a copy of the pl file (keeping in mind that I haven't yet gotten the docker fully up and running, but everything does appear to be downloaded and installed).

As it stands now, there is no official windows or linux installer. The windows installer on the docs site, that has a new host is infested with dead links for installs.
https://docs.eqemu.dev/server/instal...ation-windows/

I have all the files I needed to get things put together and created repos to host the files used for the older install method. Have a few more uploads and finish with the links in the script files, but after I am done, the full install should work for both windows and linux. It just won't have the modern docker/spire stuff installed, and I'm not interested in digging into that, lol

Most of the links in the script that needed altered are the variable download links for anything that disappeared recently. Any links pointing to files on the main EQEmu github in that eqemu_server.pl script are still active. But, I'll work more on it later tonight.