New Linux Server Guide

[eq4me]

I've done some small but important updates to the Wiki. I dont think I will be able to update the Guide until Wednesday next week. I'll try to have a look in the forum once a day in case there are questions.

Important: Make sure that you use at least the below out of the start/stop stripts in the old Linux Guide

cd ~eqemu/server ; P=`pwd` ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$P"

Without that line the EQEmu binaries wont be able to find the shared memory library. Execute the above in the same shell you are using to start ./world and ./zone.

Hint: The easiest way to get the server up and running is using Angelox database. You dont need to update tables and stuff like you have to do with the peq-luclin-rc1 database. Unfortunately Fedora doesnt have 'unrar' in the default repository. You can get it from DAG http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...c3.rf.i386.rpm

[eq4me]

Here another tidbit.

I just confirmed that it is possible to run MiniLogin.exe via wine from an text console. I first tried it with cedega and it spewed at me that it needs X11.

Here a quick howto.

Install and configure wine

For Fedora

Execute as root:
yum install wine

Execute as user eqemu:
winecfg #Will create .wine/ with the fake windows install

Hint: This will get alot faster if you do this via ssh and disabled X11 forwarding(ssh -x). winecfg cannot build the font metrics which can take quite a while. You can ignore the error messages.

For Debian

Execute as root:
apt-get install wine

Execute as user eqemu:
wine-auto

Now get Minilogin from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e...2.zip?download


And do

cd ~eqemu/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
mkdir MiniLogin
cd MiniLogin
unzip ~eqemu/incoming/MiniLogin6.2.zip

wine MiniLogin.exe

With some proper start/stop scripts you never have to worry about setting up a MiniLogin server on an seperate Windows box. In time I will look if I get some of the windows only database tools to work under wine too.

I wish I had the time to properly include that in my guide but it has to wait a few days.