Installation on Debian 5

[Lite]

I'm using Debian 5 on all my current game servers. The master server has been installed on a temporary VPS with Debian 6. The installation went without errors there.

I'm getting problems installing mono on Debian 5. Some of the dependencies are missing.

Is mono really required to run a remote server? Has anyone managed to install mono on Debian 5?

[adamnp]

How did you try installing it? Using the repos?

 

sudo apt-get install mono

 

or by downloading the bin from the project website?

 

http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads

 

If you tried one way, but not the other, try that...

Edited July 31, 2011 by adamnp

[Lite]

http://help.tcadmin.com/Mono <- Downloaded and installed it from there.

[LFA]

Install the missing dependencies:

ldd /opt/mono-2.10.2/bin/mono|grep "not found"

ldd /opt/mono-2.10.2/lib/libgdiplus.so|grep "not found"

[wilki]

When I install mono from the site on Debian 5 and then run your commands LFA then run apt-get update it removes mono.

[LFA]

It probably deletes them because some dependencies are not available on debian 5. Install mono 2.10.2 from other sources or build it from source.

[Lite]

Building it from source seems like the only way installing it on debian 5. I couldn't find a repo that included all the missing dependencies.

I think upgrading to Debian 6 is alot easier than trying to install it on Debian 5.

[LFA]

Does your server run 32bit or 64bit? I have compiled mono 2.10.3 64bit for debian 5. Let me know if this is what you need and I will upload it.

[Lite]

64bit of course. It would be nice if you could upload it.

 

Another short question. How do i get my master server out of the api settings, where i can select the servers for automatic gameserver setups. I've to specify the server explicitely. It would be easier if i could select [All Servers], but then it tries to create gameservers on the master server.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Lite

[LFA]

In all the master's IPs disable game and voice hosting. Servers > Master > Server IPs

 

In api settings > game hosting tab select all servers except the master.

 

 

Here is mono 2.10.3:

http://www.tcadmin.com/installer/mono-2.10.3-x86_64_deb5.tar.gz

 

Download to /opt and extract there.

 

After installing tcadmin you will get errors starting the services because the default mono is 2.10.2. Edit /home/tcadmin/mono-config and set the new path: /opt/mono-2.10.3 and restart the services:

cd /home/tcadmin/Monitor
./monitor-service restart
./serviceman-service restart

If you have problems start the monitor in console mode to check for errors:

 ./monitor-service stop
./monitor-console

[Lite]

I've tried installing this version of mono on a clean Debian 5 VPS. Mono gives this error when starting up:

mono: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.9' not found (required by mono)

 

I couldn't find libc on the repository. Regarding to this link it has been removed: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glibc.html

Copying the libc from Debian 6 is not a good idea. It broke the linux install. (This is what vps'es are made for)

 

 

Also, on all the master server ip's the game & voice hosting is unchecked, but it still appeares in the list, making the [All Servers] useless.

[LFA]

That's strange. Try compiling from source. All commands are here. You just need to install whatever configure says you are missing:

http://help.tcadmin.com/Mono#Build_from_Source

[adamnp]

Hrm, Just for comparison... I just was able to build mono fine off a 32bit and 64bit deb5 build from linode...I imagine there is a bunch missing from their repo for whoever is providing your VPS.

[Lite]

I've successfully compiled mono 2.10.3 by my own on debian 5 64bit.

TCAdmin is running well

 

My setup guide:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
#all the packages that i've installed for the compilation, some may not be required, but i haven't got the time to sort them out
apt-get install bzip2 gcc pkg-config libglib2.0-0 libperl-dev libgtk2.0-dev bison libpcap0.8 zip unzip
#download the precompiled mono. I've compiled it on another machine, and zipped it for easier distribution.
cd /opt
wget http://www.blockhost.de/downloads/mono.zip
unzip mono.zip

Done. Just change the mono path in "/home/tcadmin/Monitor/mono-config" to "/opt/mono-2.10.3"

 

Edit: My setup guide works/is on/for fresh installed systems.

Edited August 7, 2011 by Lite