dedicated server on linux

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:04 am

I have recently put the linux distro Damn small linux on a pc, and i tried to download the dedicated server but i do not know what i need to use to open the installer.
-also i am not familar with linux what so ever, so a detialed explanation would be nice.
thanks

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:28 am

http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php? ... n_Advanced
"Installing from Autopackage (.package)"

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:26 pm

thx ill give it a try

edit: This might sound sad, but I can not find terminal.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:12 am

Are you using fluxbox? I would say you should try the menu entry called "Aterm", sounds and looks like a terminal to me. Or anything with "term" in the name. I don't use DSL myself and am only looking at a screenshot, so I don't know really know what is there.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:41 am

To be honest I have no idea what fluxbox is.
I search for Aterm, term, terminal, and console but I still can't find it.
I burnt myself a copy of the dsl boot cd and used it on another pc and terminal is right on the desktop. However on the original dsl PC I have no icons on my desktop.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:52 am

Can you give me a direct link to the boot CD you're using? I could then see what it shows me.

Oh, and what do you have on the desktop? If you can only enter text, that already is the terminal

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:00 pm

the pc that has linux installed on it was from a floppy
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmal ... floppy.img
and i think the boot cd was from
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmal ... sl-3.4.iso

I have a desktop just without the icons. I can still do the right click on my desk top to pull up a start menu, however terminal is not in there either.
edit:I just found out that I am indeed using fluxbox

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:41 pm

I got it, I went into the menu and click run program, and I typed the command "aterm -T"
thanks for your help every one

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:41 pm

last thing
I have to type this in the terminal

bash ./armagetronad(-dedicated)-<VERSION>.<SYSTEM>.package -t

what does it mean by system?
do i just put down the fullname of the file in there so it would look like this

bash ./armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.2.1-1.i686-generic-linux-gnu.package -t

Post by **epsy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:48 pm

yes...

btw, you can just type the first letters of the file then press the [ tab ] key to auto-complete the filename automatically

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:08 pm

Today is not my lucky day I downloaded the autopackage
but than I got this message

autopackage/libexec/autpsu-tui: error while loading shared libraries: libglib-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The autopackage support code could not be installed.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:47 pm

Blame dsl for that, I think it uses uclibc instead of glibc. Install glibc from debian repositories

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:49 pm

how would i go about doing that?
Do I need to put another linux distro on here or is there a website I just download it from?

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:55 pm

There's a script you run that restores dpackage and apt-get to the debian system that dsl is based on. Check the dsl site for that. Then you just use apt-get to get glibc.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:23 pm

Lucifer wrote:Check the dsl site for that.

I would have a long time ago but their wiki seems to be lacking the stuff that I need, and the forums won't let me post until I am personally reveiwed by the forum admin, which seems to be a very relaxed process.

If no one knows what to do from here is there a way to reformat my hard drives and get a differnt distro.