Now that the updater is running you\'ll need to:

rm /usr/local/planeshift/vfs.cfg

AFTER running the updater in order for psclient to run properly.

Running the application as a normal user is good form.

Try this:

cd /usr/local/CS/bin/
./walktest --relight


If you get an error about not being able to save configuration or whatever, then your user account doesn\'t have write permissions to the /usr/local/CS*.  

Give your user account write permissions to /usr/local/CS, /usr/local/cel, and /usr/local/planeshift recursively.

Originally posted by Nedhrys
hey there,
thanks for building these.
Can\'t download them now, though - when Mozilla connects, nothing happens until it times out some minutes later - are you no longer online?

Did you resolve the difficulties you encountered?

Are there mirrors of these rpms up elsewhere? Or perhaps bit torrent files?

Thanks,

Nedhrys

I\'m not sure if they are mirrored anywhere, and I haven\'t personally built any torrents out of them.

I think I forgot to reinstate the NAT when I brought my firewall back up.  I\'ve done this now, but of course, I can\'t test it from this side of my firewall.  I\'ll verify it from work tommorow.

The planeshift RPM is the latest and greatest from CVS.  Currently, the updater shipped with the latest from CVS is incompatible with the updater running on the server.  

This means:

Backup your art and data directories! You\'ll have to restore those to play.

If you\'ve never installed before and haven\'t run the updater you may have to wait untill they upgrade the server.  You will not be able to download the art you need before the server-side updater is brought into sync with what is commited to CVS.   If I have the time, I may publish rpms of my art and data directories so that they are available when things like this happen.

Alright, I think I figured out what the problem was...


If you install entirely from RPM, you need to do this as root:

mv /usr/local/CS/etc/crystalspace/vfs.bak /usr/local/CS/etc/crystalspace/vfs.cfg

Second run /usr/local/CS/bin/walktest -relight  because this will broken after you follow the rest of these instructions.

Then run the updater.

After running the updater, do this command as root:

mv /usr/local/CS/etc/crystalspace/vfs.cfg /usr/local/CS/crystalspace/etc/crystalspace/vfs.bak

Then run psclient.



It seems that after an update to current, both of these files exist and are merged.  Merging these two files is a bad idea. I\'m not sure if this is the best solution, but it is a solution that seems to work.  

I\'ve updated the planeshift rpm to rename the  /usr/local/CS/crystalspace/crystalspace/vfs.cfg to .bak, but unless you have a current vfs.cfg from planeshift\'s update tool, this is fruitless.  You\'ll have to restore /usr/local/CS/etc/crystalspace/vfs.bak to /usr/local/CS/blahblahblah/vfs.cfg.  Run the updater, then re-rename it to .bak again.

These problems are solveable, it will just take some time to identify problems like these and make sure the solution is universal.

I built these to help the linux guys.  Enjoy:

These RPMs are kinda big, and I have limited upstream bandwidth.  I\'ll have to break this if I need to use my internet pipe.  Someone please mirror!

I have RPMS for the latest libcal3d, CrystalSpace, Crystal Entity Layer, and Planeshift.   I plan on updating the Planeshift RPM daily, and the others when needed.  

If you need prerequisites for any of these RPMS, like freetype, libmng or whatever, get the proper packages for your distro.


If you just want to play the game, you\'ll need these rpms

libcal3d
CrystalSpace
cel
planeshift

Install libcal3d first, then CrystalSpace, then cel, then Planeshift.

If you want to build Planeshift yourself from CVS, but don\'t want to screw with the prerequisites, you\'ll need these RPMS in addition to the ones above.  You\'ll also need a mysql package of some sort.

libcal3d-devel
CrystalSpace-devel
cel-devel
Jam
Install libcal3d, libcal3d-devel, cel, cel-devel, CrystalSpace, CrystalSpace-devel.

If you want to run or build a server, you\'ll need a mysql package.  I have one I built for work here, but it\'s not guarunteed to work on any particular platform, You\'ll be better off just getting the pakages for your distro.  This pakcage was custom built for work, so --nodeps is your friend.

MySQL

If you want to develop or code with any of these, you\'ll want the docs.

CrystalSpace-doc
cel-doc

NOTES:  On non-rpm based systems (e.g. Slackware, Debian), you\'ll have to use --nodeps to get these to install.  Your rpm database isn\'t fully populated, so the rpms will complain that you are missing /bin/sh, etc.

You will have to logout/login to your shell after installing these rpms in order for your $CRYSTAL, $CEL, and $CSCONFPATH to be set.  On systems that don\'t support /etc/profile.d/ style of init scripts, you\'ll have to set them yourself.

These are not guarunteed to work on any particular system.  If you have problems, feel free to let me know and I\'ll do my best to remedy them.

The planeshift RPM is currently complaining about perl dependancies.  --nodeps it for now.  I\'ll resolve it eventually.

Updating with the updater sometimes (more like usually) breaks planeshift.  Get the dev packages and rebuild planeshift from CVS.   I\'m  looking into what is causing this behavour, but it\'s not being cooperative.

Jam and RPM don\'t play nice.

Good Practice:

When you install or build Planeshift, you might want to do something like:

groupadd games
chgrp -R games /usr/local/planeshift
usermod -g games $YOUR_USERNAME
chmod -R g+w /usr/local/planeshift

Than run planeshift, the updater, etc. from your user account and not as root.  It\'s never a good idea to run a game, MMORPG, or any beta as root.

.spec files for those interested.

libcal3d.spec
cel.spec
CrystalSpace.spec
jam.spec
planeshift.spec

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