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Prerequisites

Alright, before proceeding, we need to make sure all of our packages are up-to-date. This ensures compatibility and dependency-checks. Do this by performing a full system upgrade:

sudo pacman -Syu

After successfully retrieving the latest core, community and extras repository updates, we're ready to get started!

Let's start by getting subversion, which is a tool we will need to get EQ2's latest SVN source.

pacman -Sy subversion

Calling in subversion will also get neon, which is a tool that is subversion is dependant on. Install them both accordingly. Now we also need MySQL, so let's get that too.

pacman -Sy mysql

After installation, we need to retrieve the latest EQ2-Emu source. We need to make a new folder, so I made on in my /srv directory, you can make it wherever you are comfortable.

mkdir /srv/EQ2Emu
cd /srv/EQ2Emu

Checking out the source

svn co https://eq2emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/eq2emulator eq2emulator

This checks out the module 'eq2emulator' in the current folder.

Compiling the latest source

After getting the source, we're ready to compile. So make sure you're in the folder where you extracted eq2emulator.

cd Source/World
make 

• Note, if you get an error on make, you need to get make and automake! Use

pacman -Sy make automake

After compiling the latest source, we are ready to make our database and prepare the configuration files!

Configuration

Now we need all the configuration files to run the server. Let's go ahead and make a new folder

mkdir /svr/eq2server

And then copy all the necessary files (replace /svr/eq2emulator/ with your path

cp /srv/eq2emulator/Source/World/world /srv/eq2server/world
cd /srv/eq2emulator/Config\ Files/
cp EQ2_Structs.xml /srv/eq2server/EQ2_Structs.xml
cp LoginServer.ini /srv/eq2server/LoginServer.ini
cp world_db.ini /srv/eq2server/world_db.ini
cp Common\ Structs/CommonStructs.xml /srv/eq2server/CommonStructs.xml
cp World\ Structs/WorldStructs.xml /srv/eq2server/WorldStructs.xml

Now let's go ahead and make a new MySQL database to use for the server.

mysqladmin -u root -p create eq2

Enter your root password for MySQL and now you will have a new database named eq2. Now let's go ahead and edit those configuration files for the emulator. Go into the folder you copied the files and open world_db.ini.

I've created Wiki entries for every config file, so just go to world_db.ini and LoginServer.ini

Configure the files accordingly and then come back here. Now that everything is set-up, we just need to start the server!

./world