Help Installing VPS game server!

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Hey guys, i just bought a VPS server, the single core package. I also purchased an extra ip along with it. I installed Linux OS, as there is a bug with UTD99 and Windows servers.

My question is, I want to install Unreal Tournament 99 Demo on it, but dont know where to begin. I currently have a normal server with gameservers for Unreal Tournament 99 demo, and was hoping nfo would be alot better then their crappy servers.

Can someone guide me on how to install this?

Can i take all the files from the ftp on my game servers account, and just throw it on the new nfo VPS?

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i have one more question, does people downloading server files deplete my bandwith for the server?

when players enter my server, and download the server mods, and packages, or any other files, does that take away from my bandwidth limit?

[rustydusty1717]

i have one more question, does people downloading server files deplete my bandwith for the server?

when players enter my server, and download the server mods, and packages, or any other files, does that take away from my bandwidth limit?

You betcha. Any traffic going to and from the VDS will use bandwidth. I've never dealt with UT, so I can't offer you much advice on that, but maybe John will have a better idea. You just gotta find the server files, then either use the wget command through shell, or download the files onto your PC and upload them to the VDS and un-zip there.

[Edge100x]

Hey guys, i just bought a VPS server, the single core package. I also purchased an extra ip along with it. I installed Linux OS, as there is a bug with UTD99 and Windows servers.

My question is, I want to install Unreal Tournament 99 Demo on it, but dont know where to begin. I currently have a normal server with gameservers for Unreal Tournament 99 demo, and was hoping nfo would be alot better then their crappy servers.

Can someone guide me on how to install this?

One other customer just did this, too, and merc248 gave a very good description of how to get things running in this thread: http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =44&t=4459

Can i take all the files from the ftp on my game servers account, and just throw it on the new nfo VPS?

Yes, that would likely work. You'd just need to download them from your other machine, upload them through SFTP, and then run the game through the shell.

Uploads and downloads both count toward the bandwidth quota, but our default 500 GB quota is very high and difficult to exceed without continuous high usage. If you start getting near it, you can always upgrade to a higher package near the end of your month, but it likely won't be necessary

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I was able to extract the archive from the file I downloaded from Fileplanet.

You'll want to download the .tar.gz file, transfer the file UNEXTRACTED over WinSCP or whatever other SFTP client you can use, then log into your VDS and type the following:

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$ tar zxvf UTDemo-Linux-x86-348.tar.gz

Then after it's extracted on you VDS, type the following:


[code$ cd utdemo/System
System$ ./UnrealTournament[/code]

The "./" before "UnrealTournament" in that last line is extremely important, do not omit those two characters.

Im stuck on this part. I uploaded the .tar.gz to the VPS in the root directory. I opened the VPS through control panel and opened VNC console. In the console i logged onto the VPS and typed the following.

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$ tar zxvf UTDemo-Linux-x86-348.tar.gz

I get the error: -bash $ command not found.

Like i said, the .tar.gz is in the root directory by itself, no sub folders, nothing.

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never mind, i took away the $ and it worked like a charm, i also added /root/{file name} in the code haha

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Sorry for the extra posts, but now im having problems with this code.

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$ cd utdemo/System
System$ ./UnrealTournament

Ive extracted the .tar.gz already. The directories go as follows

/root/utdemo/System

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i just now typed the following while in the System directory for Unreal Tournament Demo (root/utdemo/System)

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./UnrealTournament

I get the following error:

./UnrealTournament: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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I just read the readme.linux that came with UT Demo 99.
Do i need to do this?

It doesn't run on Cyrix processors right now and certainly not 486s

Here is a guide to upgrading to glibc 2.1:

http://www.math.cmu.edu/softdoc/howtos/ ... HOWTO.html

The Linux client and server also requires libpthread 0.8 or better. Here is a link to learn about LinuxThreads (which you should already have):

http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/

Finally, if you want to use ngStats you need to get a Java distribution. I suggest BlackDown JDK:

http://www.blackdown.org/

II. Starting a Dedicated Server.

The best way to configure a server is to start a basic server and then configure it using the remote administration tool

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./ucc server CTF-CoretDEMO?game=Botpack.CTFGame

i ran that, and it worked no problem

[merc248]

Sweet, good job on figuring it out.

It's been a long time since I've ran a UT'99 server, so I totally forgot that there was a separate binary dedicated to running a Linux server. ;P

[merc248]

Also, you don't need to do those steps, most Linux distros released these days are modern enough to have pthreads and glibc > 2.1.

However, if you DO want to use ngStats, you will need to install some kind of Java Runtime Environment (JRE for short); you can either go with Sun's JRE or one of the open source JRE's, like Blackdown. I'm not sure what they run on the VDS's here at NFO, but if it's CentOS, you'll have to follow this guide:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS

[merc248]

i just now typed the following while in the System directory for Unreal Tournament Demo (root/utdemo/System)

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./UnrealTournament

I get the following error:

./UnrealTournament: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Yep, that's likely the Linux game client; X11 is the windowing system that most UNIX's use in order to draw the GUI, and the error saying that it's wanting to use libX11 suggests that it's a client program needing to draw stuff in X11.