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Linux Specific Issues / An adventure in install!
« on: December 09, 2005, 06:19:04 am »
Having grown disgusted with the pay for play existing MMORPG, or should I say MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Grind) I went exploring.
I found several intresting MMO games, then I stumbled across PlaneShift. This intrested me. Here is a growth of what I loved in the old MU* games. Open code, friendly people, and Role Play! Yes Role Play something almost totaly lacking in the pay for play market.
So I decided to investigate and install. I run Gentoo GNU/Linux. I have for several years. I understand about compiling and configuring source. Now I am no programmer, I consider myself to be a pretty good systems engineer/admin. So most issues, installs, configs and requirements I can handle in alpha and pre-alpha software.
I decided it would be best to start with the gentoo packages. So I did the emerge planeshift. That was painless, as most gentoo emerges are. Then I tried to update, bummer updater out of date. No biggie I\'ll hit the forums. Yep right here the fix, ok downloaded got the updater. Ran the updater, waited, and waited, nice it\'s done. Ran the config, great all goes well. Ran the client, wait what\'s this... a missing library, no problem emerge the lib. Then ran the client again, it said something about lighting and to use a certan flag. Ok did that, then ran the client again.
Much to my chigrin the dreaded Segmentation Fault.
Cripes, what now.... did I miss a step, is somthing missing, where do I start troubelshooting this...
I read over the forums and the planeshift site. And the community spoke to me is a voice whispering over my sholder, \"Use the source\".
Sweet, yeah I did CVS with Enlightenment, I can do that. So now I\'m CVSing down the source and compiling it. I\'ll edit this post later with info on how it goes.
DISCLAIMER: I am not an english majr, if I could spell I would be a wrigter. All opinions are my own, if you don\'t like \'em send mail to dev@null.com
For those that don\'t know MU* stands for MUSH, MUD, MOO and many other text adventure games that predate the graphical MMO\'s. Ask uncle google about mud.
*EDIT 12/9/05*
Well the jam compiles went off without a hitch. I followed the directions on the CVS page and they were very comprehensive. Started the update and got some sleep. This morning I ran the setup program and made sure it fit with my system and the options I wanted.
Then the moment of truth, I ran psclient and YIPPIEEEE!
Awww bummer not many models for the characters yet, no customisation. Oh well it\'s alpha, it\'s to be expected, did some exploring and talking to others. Too bad I\'m off to work, I\'ll play more Saturday!
See you online!
I found several intresting MMO games, then I stumbled across PlaneShift. This intrested me. Here is a growth of what I loved in the old MU* games. Open code, friendly people, and Role Play! Yes Role Play something almost totaly lacking in the pay for play market.
So I decided to investigate and install. I run Gentoo GNU/Linux. I have for several years. I understand about compiling and configuring source. Now I am no programmer, I consider myself to be a pretty good systems engineer/admin. So most issues, installs, configs and requirements I can handle in alpha and pre-alpha software.
I decided it would be best to start with the gentoo packages. So I did the emerge planeshift. That was painless, as most gentoo emerges are. Then I tried to update, bummer updater out of date. No biggie I\'ll hit the forums. Yep right here the fix, ok downloaded got the updater. Ran the updater, waited, and waited, nice it\'s done. Ran the config, great all goes well. Ran the client, wait what\'s this... a missing library, no problem emerge the lib. Then ran the client again, it said something about lighting and to use a certan flag. Ok did that, then ran the client again.
Much to my chigrin the dreaded Segmentation Fault.
Cripes, what now.... did I miss a step, is somthing missing, where do I start troubelshooting this...
I read over the forums and the planeshift site. And the community spoke to me is a voice whispering over my sholder, \"Use the source\".
Sweet, yeah I did CVS with Enlightenment, I can do that. So now I\'m CVSing down the source and compiling it. I\'ll edit this post later with info on how it goes.
DISCLAIMER: I am not an english majr, if I could spell I would be a wrigter. All opinions are my own, if you don\'t like \'em send mail to dev@null.com
For those that don\'t know MU* stands for MUSH, MUD, MOO and many other text adventure games that predate the graphical MMO\'s. Ask uncle google about mud.
*EDIT 12/9/05*
Well the jam compiles went off without a hitch. I followed the directions on the CVS page and they were very comprehensive. Started the update and got some sleep. This morning I ran the setup program and made sure it fit with my system and the options I wanted.
Then the moment of truth, I ran psclient and YIPPIEEEE!
Awww bummer not many models for the characters yet, no customisation. Oh well it\'s alpha, it\'s to be expected, did some exploring and talking to others. Too bad I\'m off to work, I\'ll play more Saturday!
See you online!