Unofficial ShowEQ HOWTO and FAQ

[monkey679]

In order to reduce the amount of useless spam threads, I will just use one. Below are the URLs to some things you might find useful that I have written in order to facilitate your installation of ShowEQ onto RedHat 7.2 or Mandrake 8.1. Also below is a FAQ which you might find useful if you read before posting. It may answer the question you are about to ask. This thread should also be used to discuss questions, suggestions or issues with the HOWTOs or FAQ. It will keep it all in one place and hopefully make it easier for me to update, fix and alter. It will also avoid cluttering up the original threads with useless posts and ensure that you only have to read the one post to get all the info you need. Thanks to casey for making me realize that 6 threads on this board were actually a huge waste, it just never occured to me to make one.

FAQ [unofficial]: ShowEQ Frequently Asked Questions
HOWTO: Installing ShowEQ on Mandrake 8.1 Clean Install
HOWTO: Installing ShowEQ on RedHat 7.2 Clean Install

When posting to this thread, please try and mention what you are commenting, questioning or suggesting on. Otherwise, i will have to use my psychic powers and guess which one you think is inaccurate/needs updating/was really good.

[casey]

why dont you keep your announcement thread and discussion thread and this useless spam post announcing bothof them in the same forum?

that will save you this post, and not clutter of this board with the requirement of clicking over to another board to read the topic at hand.

[anon2]

There is a typo in step 5 of the Mandrake and RedHat install.

cp /usr/local/share/showeq/showeq.conf.dist /usr/local/share/showeq.conf
pico -w /usr/local/share/showeq/showeq.conf

should be:
cp /usr/local/share/showeq/showeq.conf.dist /usr/local/share/showeq/showeq.conf
pico -w /usr/local/share/showeq/showeq.conf


You forgot the showeq directory in your target directory.

Otherwise a great job I think.

[fryfrog]

i'll fix that momentarily :)

[fryfrog]

okay, i corrected that mistake :) the one thing i'm not totally sure of is which of the rpms are required and which aren't. if anyone can confirm for sure that one isn't required, i'll remove it from the list.

[Cyclone_T]

Sorry, this is kinda lame..but inyour guide it says to enter the IP address after ./showeq

Well, I tried using the IP address of the computer that EQ runs off of and it says it couldnt be found? Is that the right one, or is it supposed to be the IP address of the EQ Servers *Like from the eqhosts.txt file*

Thx! Sorry just wanted to clear that up

[fryfrog]

it should be the ip address of the computer you are playing everquest from. i run my showeq like this

cd /usr/local/bin/
./showeq -i eth0 10.0.0.10

i'll go back and make sure that portion is correct also :)

[fryfrog]

there, i updated it a tad so that particular point should be clearer. hope that helps you out :)

[lewtWh0re]

When i get to this part

export CC=gcc3 ; export CXX=g++3 ; export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2
make -f Makefile.dist
./configure
make
make install


all i get is
Make: Makefile.dist: No such file or directory
make: ***No rule to make target 'makefile.dist'. Stop


whats wrong?

[lewtWh0re]

I'm stupid ignore that post lol

i got it

[fryfrog]

did you just forget to "cd showeq"? i probably need to add that if it isn't there. :)

[fryfrog]

there, i added a few "cd /root/showeq" lines at appropriate places. thanks for pointing out that those were missing. while they may be obvious to some (obviously to me, cause i forgot to mention them) they certainly aren't to others. and the point is to help everyone get it working :)

please, i know its lame but if you like it i'd LOVE a yes vote, and if you don't a no vote will tell me i need to work on it some more :)

[monkey679]

i updated the filters_mapfile.conf link to blue adepts new mirror, which appears to be MUCH faster :)

[Aurelius]

I am following the guide for the Mandrake 8.1 and have run into a difficulty at the 2b point. I have completed the editing of the g++ and gcc as listed. Although I tried to pico but pico was a bash error of not being found so I just advanced editor'd it. When I try to compile, I receive the following:

[root@2-l qt-2.3.2]# ./configure -thread

This is the Qt Free Edition.

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of either
the Q Public License (QPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Type 'Q' to view the Q Public License.
Type 'G' to view the GNU General Public License.
Type 'yes' to accept this license offer.
Type 'no' to decline this license offer.

Do you accept the terms of the license?
yes

This target is using the GNU C++ compiler (linux-g++).

Recent versions of this compiler automatically include
code for exceptions, which increase both the size of
the Qt library and the amount of memory taken by your
applications.

You may elect to re-run ./configure with the -no-g++-exceptions
option to compile Qt without exceptions. This is
completely binary compatible, and existing
applications will continue to work (like KDE 2).


Build type: linux-g++-shared

Thread support..................... yes
GIF support........................ no
MNG support........................ no
JPEG support....................... no
OpenGL support .................... yes
NAS sound support.................. no
Session management................. yes
Xft support (Anti-Aliased Fonts) .. yes
XKB support ....................... yes

Creating makefiles...
Qt is now configured for building. Just run make.
To reconfigure, run make clean and configure.

[root@2-l qt-2.3.2]# make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2'
cd src/moc; make
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2/src/moc'
g++-3.0.1 -c -I/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2/include -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -DQT_NO_CODECS -DQT_LITE_UNICODE -I../../include -I../tools -I. -o mocgen.o mocgen.cpp
make[2]: g++-3.0.1: Command not found
make[2]: *** [mocgen.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2/src/moc'
make[1]: *** [src-moc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2'
make: *** [init] Error 2
[root@2-l qt-2.3.2]#


As you may have deduced, I am not programmer literate but I am trying to learn. What would you suggest?
Thanks for your time.

[fryfrog]

make[2]: g++-3.0.1: Command not found

that line seems to suggest that you just don't have the gcc-3.0.1 rpms installed. there are both gcc and gcc-3.0.1 rpms that need to be installed, make sure that both are present.

rpm -qa | grep gcc 
rpm -qa | grep 3.0

are a good way to look for them.
this is the result of running the "rpm -qa | grep gcc" on my system. note the presence of both "gcc3.0-" rpms and "gcc-" rpms.

gcc3.0-cpp-3.0.1-1mdk
gcc-cpp-2.96-0.62mdk
gcc-c++-2.96-0.62mdk
gcc3.0-3.0.1-1mdk
gcc3.0-colorgcc-3.0.1-1mdk
gcc-2.96-0.62mdk
libgcc3.0-3.0.1-1mdk
gcc3.0-c++-3.0.1-1mdk
gcc3.0-doc-3.0.1-1mdk