Ubuntu Setup ... Missing files?
 

So, my problem starts pretty early on.

I get to the line:

cd /eqemu/source/[Today's Date]/EMuShareMem/
make clean
make

and... I don't have this directory... I have a file EMuShareMem.dll from the EQEmu-Rev1708.zip package (which is in /eqemu/source/20101111/), but I'm at a total loss as to what to do here. "make clean" and "make" both just return error messages (something like there is no target).


Perhaps I'm in over my head, as I barely even know how to use Linux, but that's never deterred me before :P

Halp!

If I were you, I would take a quick tutorial on the difference between Windows and Linux executables.

Okay, grand.

Do I have the right files if I download that .zip from the Google code base? If not, what do I need to be downloading? All the tutorials I've seen point to old links that are no longer hosted and redirect to the Google code base.

I'm on Part 1 of This Guide

make sure you have gcc

go into the ubuntu package manager

System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager

you'll want to get a bunch of stuff from there, particularly gcc, apache, mysql-server, and whatever else looks schnazzy..

and remember .. the sudo command is your friend

Thanks, I'll check that out.

I've noticed all of the guides seem to mention extra files that I'm not finding when I download (the Windows ones as well). I get the feeling there's something I'm missing though I'm following the links and downloading what's there... Like unpacking the main source file is supposed to result in a "build" folder, which I never see. There aren't any subfolders in any of what I've downloaded.

Is EQEmu-Rev1708.zip the entire file (outside of quests and maps)?

Found here under "Downloads"?

The guides I have read are based on using SVN to get the source code and compile it yourself, not downloading the precompiled package which it sounds like you have done.

Hmm... This could explain things.

I suppose maybe that's the way things are now and the guides I'm reading were written when everything was hosted on SourceForge (that seems to be where all the redirected links to files start).