trying to install showeq for Live

[kjkjkj2]

I am trying to install showeq to use on Live. I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 19 because I am not good with Linux and I heard it already had some of the packages included. I am not on p99 but I followed this guide because it was simple: https://medium.com/@Packet99/installing-showeq-in-2018-81566001ec89

I am trying to get version 5.13.10.96 working.

All of the steps from the medium.com article worked well but at the end I could not get the 5220 patch working.

When I did ./configure it completed but then when I typed make I get this:

root@xavier-MS-7693:/home/xavier/Desktop/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.96# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/xavier/Desktop/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.96'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/xavier/Desktop/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.96/src'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/qt3/include -I. -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/showeq/\" -I/usr/include/pcap -D_REENTRANT -O2 -Wall -g -ggdb -DDEBUG -finline-functions -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT=1 -DDISPLAY_ICONS=false -DICON_DIR=\"/eq-icons/\" -g -O2 -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o main.cpp
In file included from interface.h:32:0,
from main.cpp:44:
everquest.h:2712:46: error: flexible array member in union
struct bazaarSearchResponseStruct response[];
^
Makefile:731: recipe for target 'main.o' failed
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/xavier/Desktop/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.96/src'
Makefile:452: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/xavier/Desktop/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.96'
Makefile:384: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Any recommendations for a Linux newby like myself? I tried on Ubuntu at first but got lost trying to install all the qt3 packages.

[Flatline]

CentOS 6.9 or 7.0 work basically out of the box. If you are still learning Linux, it'd be easiest to just start with one of those.

[cn187]

That particular issue has been around a while, and there's a post here somewhere about it. I'm not sure why it was never fixed. At any rate, I just updated trunk to include the fix. If you're comfortable pulling directly from SVN, you can grab it there.

If not, you can edit src/everquest.h, go to line 2712, and change


struct bazaarSearchResponseStruct response[];

to


struct bazaarSearchResponseStruct response[0];


Otherwise, the fix will be included in the next tarball, which should be released tonight or tomorrow.


Side note: if you'd prefer to use Ubuntu without the hassle of the QT3 packages, you could try the pre6.0 beta (which has been updated to use QT4). There isn't a tarball for it, so you'd have to get it directly from SVN.

[kjkjkj2]

CentOS 6.9 or 7.0 work basically out of the box. If you are still learning Linux, it'd be easiest to just start with one of those.

ok im on centos 6.9 now.

downloaded and extracted showeq 5.13.10.96

./configure gave me:

"checking for gcc... no"

"checking for c++ ... no"

"checking whether the C++ compiler works... no"

"C++ compiler cannot create executables"

Do I need to install anything?

[cn187]

Do I need to install anything?

Yes, there are a bunch of things that need installed. I don't have much experience with RPM-based systems, so I'm not sure what all the package names are for the packages you need. The INSTALL.newbies file in the tarball is out of date (based on FC2), but it might be a good start. The package names should be close to the CentOS package names at least.

[kjkjkj2]

Yes, there are a bunch of things that need installed. I don't have much experience with RPM-based systems, so I'm not sure what all the package names are for the packages you need. The INSTALL.newbies file in the tarball is out of date (based on FC2), but it might be a good start. The package names should be close to the CentOS package names at least.

ok in the GUI for centOS I went to software update and I see a lot of updates related to packages, libraries, C++ and more. So ill download those updates and see what happens.

Thanks

[kjkjkj2]

the centos updates didnt seem to help any but these commands did:


yum install svn
yum install libtool
yum install gcc-c++
yum install qt qt-demos qt-designer
yum install libpcap-devel
yum updatenow

./configure and make and make install commands seem to have worked.

showeq command gives me "cannot connect to X server :0.0"

I think its related to permissions sudo and root but I dont know how to fix it. another thread suggested chmod u+s but im not sure what that means.

do I need to run startx? when I do it says "xauth: file /root/.serverauth.16327 does not exist"

[cn187]

Do you already have X running and you're doing this from a terminal, or are you at the console with no X running?

If the former, then try either disabling access control for X

(as your user)


xhost +


or specifying your user's Xauthority file

(as root)


export XAUTHORITY=/home/your_username/.Xauthority



If the latter, then yes, you need to start x, either with via startx or a display manager, or what have you.

[kjkjkj2]

I cannot get X to run. When I type startx I see:

xauth: file /home/michael/.serverauth.16605 does not exist

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the CentOS support
at https://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
for help.
(EE)

[cn187]

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.


This sounds like X is already running. Did you check your other virtual terminals? Assuming you're on tty1, try Alt-F2, Alt-F3, etc. until you find it or run out of F keys. Also, you could try



ps -ef |grep X


to see if an X process is running. For example, mine gives



root 1048 788 3 May10 tty7 08:39:35 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch


Which shows that it's running on virtual terminal 7.

[kkmonte]

Can you do "sudo showeq" ? or just type in su and type in the admin password and then try to run it. Also depending on your adapter name, it might not find it if its not eth0, mine is em1. So when I run showeq, i type "showeq -i eml" while in an su command prompt. you can run an ifconfig and look at your adapter names on the left to see if you have an eth0 or em1.

[kjkjkj2]

when I first open a Terminal, when I type "sudo showeq" it says my username is not in the sudoers file and this incident will be reported.

When i type su and my password it brings me to root and then type showeq..... now its working. It brings up the Show EQ GUI interface.

I dont think i changed anything. Just walked away for a couple hours and came back and tried and it worked.

Not sure if everything is working, because i've never used showeq before, so I dont know what its suppose to do, but at least I made progress. Ill let u know if I need anything else.

Thanks

[cn187]

With the patch yesterday/today, the version you have won't work when they unlock the servers. We'll post a patch and a new tarball once they come up and we can find/verify the needed updates. But since you've worked through the build process, I don't expect you'll have any issues when we post the updates.