help : Installing VS to linux server.

[Mink]

I'm having a few troubles installing VS onto my server. I'm not exactly einstein at this kind of thing, and have limited ssh/telnet knowledge...

It's a linux server

Where should i run the VS install file, in the root dir? or the hlds folder?

How do i excute VS for online play on my server after that?

I've tried to get the server company to do this for me, but they are too busy grabbing money atm.

If i can get this working will have a high speed, 18 man VS server up and running...can't wait

[Cheery Richard]

Hi,

Assuming you have a working HL server installed on a Linux machine it's actually quite easy to install a MOD like VS.
(If you don't I can help with that)

First of use FTP to get the 'vs_l-1.0_full.tar.gz' on to your server.
Next copy the file INTO the hlds_l directory and type the following 'tar -xzf vs_l-1.0_full.tar.gz'. When thats done you should see a 'vs' directory which contain all the file for our mod.
To run the server you can just something like the following './hlds_run -game vs +maxplayers 16 +map vs_church +exec autoexec.cfg'

I do recomend using hlds_ld (Half-Life
Dedicated Server Demon) which adds map voting, kick voting and will even re-start the server if it hangs/crashes! Goto http://linuxhlds.halflife.org/

Richard

[Ferg]

i found the files at http://server.counter-strike.net very helpfull, should also apply for VS :)

[Mink]

Cheery richard, I followed what you said, however when i try the 'tar -xzf vs_l-1.0_full.tar.gz'. in the hlds_l directory a get a bunch of errors. Then when i try the ./hlds_run -game vs +maxplayers 16 +map vs_church +exec autoexec.cfg' It wont start up.

I forget the error messages....but do you know what could be going wrong?

ta

[FiRe]

lol, we need more information than that. What was the error? What happened next? etc etc. :)

[Mink]

Lol, i thought it might be a bit brief :)
I've tried it again and i managed to untar it without any error messages. But when i tryed running it using the command..... ./hlds_run -game vs +maxplayers 18 +map vs_church +exec autoexec.cfg

but i got the error message....
libhlwon.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any ideas

[Ferg]

for hlds_l you have to type

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/halflife/hlds_l:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

before you run the file, maybe this is a similar problem :)

You might have to change some bits in that line to apply to your ds if its different though. That is only a guess btw :)

[Edited by Ferg on 13-02-2001 at 05:08 PM]