Debian 5

**hayward6** · #1 05-27-2009, 08:55 PM

I'm trying to start my server up again after leaving it down for a few months. I figured I may as well get all the updates I can... but apparently Debian 5 has enough differences that its giving me a hard time. I'm having the full range of issues from IP addressing changing on its own, to standard applications im used to simply not being installed.

I would go back to release 4, but the software install stage where it downloads everything from a mirror simply doesn't work... it just sits at 5% all day.

Anyone see this, and know what my options are? The wiki is too outdated to be used with Debian 5, and Debian 4 just isn't playing nice anymore. Some other issues I had with 5 was SVN not being installed, and then the SVN checkout isn't working right, I just get a bunch of folders with files called root, repository things like that, but no actual files that should be in the quest, and database folder.

Thank you,

drakelord · #2 05-27-2009, 09:46 PM

This is weird. I had a base-net install of Debian 5, installed the necessary libraries needed, compiled, and ran straight fine. I'm not quite sure why you are having so much trouble. Are you running i386, i686, x86 or x64?

**hayward6** · #3 05-27-2009, 10:01 PM

i386. I don't know... everywhere I turn I see different addresses for the SVN repository. If I type it in as it's listed on the site i get an error that it doesn't exist. I'm going to try following this guide http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27509 and see where it takes me. The links are a different name than what I have tried. We've never been good at standardizing, and I guess that's one of the drawbacks of open source. If we could have one good thread with all the viable links I would be happy.

**hayward6** · #4 05-27-2009, 10:36 PM

That didn't help, the files are all missing from the quests and database folders, all that's there is some kind of file structure.

**hayward6** · #5 05-27-2009, 10:48 PM

This command "svn checkout http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projecteqemu-read-only"

gets me the result

Code:

eqemu@debian:~$ svn checkout http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projecteqemu-read-only
bash: svn: command not found
eqemu@debian:~$

**trevius** · #6 05-27-2009, 10:48 PM

I run Debian Etch and use the wiki here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ianLinuxServer

That worked fine for me, but it has been a few months since I last did an install of it. I just run any updates that come in for it and never have a problem.

If there is a particular part of that wiki that isn't working, can you explain where you are getting stuck at?

**hayward6** · #7 05-27-2009, 10:57 PM

I just made some progress. Apparently subversion doesn't come with the Debian 5 package I installed so I had to install it

probably simple to a Linux pro, but I had to fumble around

Code:

apt-get install subversion