Newbie Help: Modern Setup Guide?

[arggonuts]

I'm sure you get quite a few threads about this, so I apologize, but I haven't been able to figure this out. As stated, I'm a newbie to Linux and to EQEmu. I tried setting it up on my Windows 7 file server but as expected it would not successfully run. I'd get hung up on launching the new loginserver, but that's for an entirely other thread.

All said and done, I'm running Linux Mint on my server box for the explicit purpose of running an EQEmu server over my LAN. I've been bouncing between the setup guides for both Windows and Linux and I'm just not able to get it to work. By no means am I a computer newbie and I'm very easily trainable, but I just can't find a guide that utilizes the latest sources.

Anyways, I'm breaking down and I'm going to try to use the AX Classic just to get it to work, bit I'd really like to be able to build it on the Linux end from scratch. Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide.