Distros that run nwserver

[Ansalon]

Wow, I'm impressed this place is still active.

I used to run my very large NWN1 World on Redhat 9 (gcc 3.22 Redhat Linux 3.2.25) I decided to take it out of mothballs but can't find a linux distro I can use.

My newish machine (ASUS P5G41T-MLX) Redhat 9 doesn't like it. Locks up on installation.

Current Slackware 12.2
compiles NWNX2 fine
strangeness with nwserver
It runs a blank module (just an area with nothing in it) fine,
the second you add a tree, door etc. it does a Seg Fault

Tried Fedora 2, won't even find the SATA DVD Drive or the SATA Drive, cant even install it on my MB

Tried Fedora Core 7 (gcc 4.1.2 (Redhat 4.1.2-12))
won't run nwserver

I'm at a loss to find a linux distro that will run on my machine and still run nwserver and nwnx2

What gcc does nwserver use? I know its ELF. (file has ELF header)

PLEASE save me from having to run it under Winblows!

[Lokey]

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5G41M_LX/ ?? Don't see anything alarming or something that should throw any lin distro of the last 4 years or so for a loop.

Alright, fedora 7 is ancient, might be something that lacks drivers although it shouldn't die on install Slack is 2 versions out, that might be ok. x86, x86-64, something else--that will be important?

Most commonly used to my eyes are buntu/deb. Have read about people using arch and fedora here...
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[Squatting Monk]

I got it running successfully on Ubuntu 10.04 server edition without too much trouble. Haven't tried upgrading to 12.04 yet, though.

[eeriegeek]

I've gotten good builds on Fedora Core 14. I've had problems with newer versions of gcc that ship with later Fedora releases. I've also had sucessful builds on CentOS 6.2.

[Ansalon]

Thanks for the replies

I read that these may work sufficiently
Downloading
ubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso
debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
Fedora Core 3
hopefully one will compile NWNX2 * AND * run nwserver

I will look into Fedora 14, thanks

Cheers

[Ansalon]

[domaine]

all new linux release will fail the compile
for now the only, not too old distro, that i tried and compiled nwnx
is debian 6.0.0.7.

nwserver didn't gave me any problem and you don't need to compile it
just follow those guide for downloading and installing it

http://www.neverwinternights.info/dedicatedserver.htm

http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/User:Arek75/Installing_the_Linux_Dedicated_Server/Installing_NWServer

install the server in
/usr/local/share/nwn

so you will be ok with nwnx default installation path too

[Ansalon]

ubuntu 7.10 server failed to run nwserver

Even though the link
http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/User:Arek75/Installing_the_Linux_Dedicated_Server/Introduction

states to use 7.10

Trying Debian 6.0.7 now

[pardik]

I have nwserver running on ubuntu 13.04 32bit.
For compiling nwnx, Debian 6 32bit is good, you could have it debootstrapped inside ubuntu, take a look at Elven's instructions.
I had segfault issues solved now by copying all .bif from client /data directory into dedicated server ./data dir, including all aurora*.bif

[Ansalon]

[Squatting Monk]

It's stickied at the top of the forum: HOWTO: Compile & run nwnx2-core-2.8 on 64bit Debian/Ubuntu

[Ansalon]

[Ansalon]

[Squatting Monk]

Can you post the results of...

[domaine]

supposing you have installed nwn in

/usr/local/share/nwn

open terminal

go in
/usr/local/share

sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup nwn
just to be sure do this too
cd nwn
sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup *

do this too in the case
chmod -R ug+w *
chmod ug+x fixinstall

then run fixinstall.sh with
./fixinstall