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    ShowEQ mini guide

    This is my mini-guide on how I got this working. My setup is a single machine, using Linux Mint 19 in a VMWare Workstation Player running ShowEQ 6.2.5. Make sure that when you add the Network Adapter you set it to bridged, not NAT.

    Credit also to this post from which I pulled some info: http://www.showeq.net/forums/showthr...inux-Mint-20-1

    I like to work from my Desktop (just habit) and I always create a fresh folder for showEQ there:

    Code:
    cd Desktop
    mkdir seq
    I installed the following, and only the following packages:

    Code:
    sudo apt install build-essential
    sudo apt install libpcap0.8-dev
    sudo apt install zlib1g-dev
    sudo apt install libqt4-dev
    sudo apt install libtool
    sudo apt install libx11-dev
    sudo apt install libxext-dev
    sudo apt install libpng-dev
    sudo apt install libice-dev
    SVN wasn't working for me properly, so I just downloaded the tarball with wget:

    Code:
    wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/seq/files/ShowEQ/Showeq-6.2.5/showeq-6.2.5.tar.bz2
    Extract the tarball:

    Code:
    tar -xvf showeq-6.2.5.tar.bz2
    Go into the showeq directory:

    Code:
    cd showeq-6.2.5
    Configure

    Code:
    sudo ./configure
    Make

    Code:
    sudo make
    Make install

    Code:
    sudo make install
    Provide ownership of the /usr/local/share/showeq folder. Put in your username where it says <username> without the brackets:

    Code:
    sudo chown -R <username>:<username> /usr/local/share/showeq
    Run the following command to see what the name of your NIC is. In my case it was 'ens33'

    Code:
    ifconfig
    Running showEQ:

    Code:
    cd /usr/local/bin
    sudo ./showeq -i ens33
    Hopefully this guide can help some Linux amateurs (such as myself) get ShowEQ running!

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Thanks
    Filters for ShowEQ can now be found here. filters-5xx-06-20-05.tar.gz

    ShowEQ file section is here. https://sourceforge.net/project/show...roup_id=10131#

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Just to add this info if you want to patch last month's ShowEQ with newby's patch and svn or tarball is not updated yet.

    Download the patch file from newby's post to your home ~/ directory (can be anywhere else). X.X.X is last offical ShowEQ release version. XXXXXX is the date of patch by newby.

    cd /path/to/showeq-X.X.X
    patch -p0 < ~/diffs-XXXXXX.txt
    make distclean
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

    You should download the new tarball and recompile when it's released as there's some missing opcodes that would be added in by cn187.
    Last edited by Loki; 05-29-2022 at 09:35 PM.

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Followed this step by step on a physical computer and not a VM as the original post and it works like a hot damn ! Thanks dkissick986 for this and the original thread for Linux Mint.

    My Linux skills are near non-existent but to pass on some of my experience to the next newb trying to install showeq..

    - I used Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=254
    - Created a bootable USB drive using Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/ and the ISO I downloaded from the first link.
    - Followed every step from the top post, and only the steps they listed.
    - Downloaded Brewalls Maps https://www.eqmaps.info/wp-content/u...l-20230623.zip and extracted the zip into my Home>Downloads
    - Downloaded the converter to convert the maps for Showeq https://www.showeq.net/forums/attach...8&d=1691079719 , just unzip it and put it in the Brewalls maps folder and execute it.
    - I copy/pasted al the maps and everything I just converted into /usr/local/share/showeq/maps (the folder has permissions ? sudo chmod -R 777 ./ in the show eq maps folder, probably not the way but it worked)

    I tried to used port mirroring on my switch and ShowEQ just wouldn't work, try as I might I couldn't get it to function. I purchased an Ethernet HUB from Craigslist to $10 and BAM!, in business.

    To run showeq I use the command sudo ./showeq eno2 --ip-address=192.168.1.110 (eno2 being your ethernet adapter, type ifconfig to get this info, and the IP address of your EQ machine)

    Thanks to everyone and the hundreds of posts I sifted through that people took the time to post, I tried numerous builds and this worked the best

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Quote Originally Posted by Flairchild View Post
    Followed this step by step on a physical computer and not a VM as the original post and it works like a hot damn ! Thanks dkissick986 for this and the original thread for Linux Mint.

    My Linux skills are near non-existent but to pass on some of my experience to the next newb trying to install showeq..

    - I used Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=254
    - Created a bootable USB drive using Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/ and the ISO I downloaded from the first link.
    - Followed every step from the top post, and only the steps they listed.
    - Downloaded Brewalls Maps https://www.eqmaps.info/wp-content/u...l-20230623.zip and extracted the zip into my Home>Downloads
    - Downloaded the converter to convert the maps for Showeq https://www.showeq.net/forums/attach...8&d=1691079719 , just unzip it and put it in the Brewalls maps folder and execute it.
    - I copy/pasted al the maps and everything I just converted into /usr/local/share/showeq/maps (the folder has permissions ? sudo chmod -R 777 ./ in the show eq maps folder, probably not the way but it worked)

    I tried to used port mirroring on my switch and ShowEQ just wouldn't work, try as I might I couldn't get it to function. I purchased an Ethernet HUB from Craigslist to $10 and BAM!, in business.

    To run showeq I use the command sudo ./showeq eno2 --ip-address=192.168.1.110 (eno2 being your ethernet adapter, type ifconfig to get this info, and the IP address of your EQ machine)

    Thanks to everyone and the hundreds of posts I sifted through that people took the time to post, I tried numerous builds and this worked the best

    I just want to report that I bought a cheap, managed switch from Amazon (Netgear GS308E, about $40), and was able to use the port mirroring to get showeq to work quite easily. I already had an 8-port unmanaged switch, so I just swapped it for the managed one, then it was just a matter of mirroring my game machine to my machine running Fedora 38.

    I want to use SEQ to debug a performance problem I am having during raids. I seem to be getting my gina triggers much later than other people, so I'm trying to figure out if the trigger message is making it across the wire long before Gina triggers on it, or if the problem lies elsewhere.

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Gina lag is typically caused by your log file growing too large. Make sure you clean out your log file regularly, like every session.

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    Re: ShowEQ mini guide

    Thanks for the tip, but yeah, we are doing that before every raid event.

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