Setting up a server on Ubuntu Server 15.04 (terminal only)

[nordemoniac]

Hi!

I need some help to setup a server on an Ubuntu Server with no GUI.

I started out with:

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sudo apt-get build-dep openttd

This seemed to give me all the requirements for installing OpenTTD.
After this I ran:

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wget https://binaries.openttd.org/releases/1.5.1/openttd-1.5.1-linux-ubuntu-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i openttd-1.5.1-linux-ubuntu-trusty-amd64.deb

OpenTTD is now under /usr/games/openttd and /usr/share/games/openttd
Which of these two should I use?
Do I need to download any graphics packs/music etc?

As it's a bit hard to configure everything from the console, is it possible to configure everything (maps, station settings etc) on my Mac the way I would want it on the server, and then copy openttd.cfg to my Linux server and start it from there? That way I don't have to install a GUI on my server.

Are there also some tips on how to automatically stop/start the server on boot with Linux? A script with "screen" as a command? Autosave?

[planetmaker]

Hi!

I need some help to setup a server on an Ubuntu Server with no GUI.

I started out with:

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sudo apt-get build-dep openttd

This seemed to give me all the requirements for installing OpenTTD.
After this I ran:

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wget https://binaries.openttd.org/releases/1.5.1/openttd-1.5.1-linux-ubuntu-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i openttd-1.5.1-linux-ubuntu-trusty-amd64.deb

OpenTTD is now under /usr/games/openttd and /usr/share/games/openttd
Which of these two should I use?
Do I need to download any graphics packs/music etc?

As it's a bit hard to configure everything from the console, is it possible to configure everything (maps, station settings etc) on my Mac the way I would want it on the server, and then copy openttd.cfg to my Linux server and start it from there? That way I don't have to install a GUI on my server.

Are there also some tips on how to automatically stop/start the server on boot with Linux? A script with "screen" as a command? Autosave?

We do not provide headless binaries. Thus if you use one of our pre-fab binaries, (the one you used wget on) you'll need to install an X (GUI) environment on your server (and you could have skipped installing the build dependencies). If you do not want to do that, you need to compile OpenTTD from source (subversion repository) yourself with the configure flag --enable-dedicated (and only then you need the build dependencies which you installed). You can then simply run that binary from the build directory without any need to install it. That is possibly easier when you frequently want to update to the latest release version which might not be too quickly available from the official ubunutu repositories.

You will need a valid graphics base set as it contains more than just graphics, including potentially some information for map generation.

Of course you can generate a cfg file as well as a savegame file and transfer them to your server for usage.

[nordemoniac]

Thank you!
Installing the Deb package failed because of lacking dependencies, which is why I installed it.

So "openttd -D" wouldn't work without compiling from source then?

If not; How do I completely remove OpenTTD before reinstalling from source?

Also, will there still be /usr/games and /usr/share/games?

Which to use out of these two? Doesn't matter because the user files are in user library?

[planetmaker]

Thank you!

So "openttd -D" wouldn't work without compiling from source?

Oh, it will work. But our binaries depend on certain shared libraries being present, among them those which are responsible for GUI: SDL, icu, fontconfig, freetype2. Thus you can run it without GUI just fine as long as you installed thesee dependencies. But you can compile OpenTTD yourself such that those dependencies on GUI components does not exist in the binary - on a server without any GUI at all that might make sense - depends on how much you value your disk space on the server.

[nordemoniac]

Thank you!

So "openttd -D" wouldn't work without compiling from source?

Oh, it will work. But our binaries depend on certain shared libraries being present, among them those which are responsible for GUI: SDL, icu, fontconfig, freetype2. Thus you can run it without GUI just fine as long as you installed thesee dependencies. But you can compile OpenTTD yourself such that those dependencies on GUI components does not exist in the binary - on a server without any GUI at all that might make sense - depends on how much you value your disk space on the server.

Aha, I get it.

Well, anything that doesn't have to be there...

I'll definitely do a source install, makes more sense as I'm running multiple game servers on the same physical machine.

[nordemoniac]

Thank you!


If not; How do I completely remove OpenTTD before reinstalling from source?

I used "sudo apt-get install remove openttd" then I removed .openttd from user home, and openttd folder from /usr/share/games.

[nordemoniac]

I've done the following:

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./configure --enable-dedicated
make --jobs=9

It's now finished, what do I do next?

"<code>make install" what is "code" here?

Also, I guess I still have to manually copy zBase or similar to get 32bpp?

[planetmaker]

When there is no reply yet, please, amend and edit your last posting instead of double and tripple posting. Double posting is forbidden in this forum.
EDIT: you can use an indication like this that you changed the posting after the intial submission to the forum.

I've done the following:

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./configure --enable-dedicated
make --jobs=9

It's now finished, what do I do next?

"<code>make install" what is "code" here?

Also, I guess I still have to manually copy zBase or similar to get 32bpp?

The actual graphics don't matter for a server, thus installing zBase only uses 200MByte where OpenGFX would use 8MByte for the same effect; it's the client who decides which base set s/he wants to use, not the server. Simply install it once using

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apt-get install openttd-data

(or however that package is called on ubuntu)



As to your installation of OpenTTD itself:

After compilation your binary will reside in

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./bin/openttd

relative to the svn repository. You can use

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sudo make install

if you really want to install it. Personally I simply use a separate local dir for each server. It has the advantage that I can easily run a different OpenTTD version for different servers.

From the main dir of the repository:

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mkdir -p ~/server1
make bundle
cp -rp bundle/* ~/server1

Afterwards you can start the server:

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cd ~/server1
./openttd -D -f

or when called inside a screen you can skip forking into background and use the session for quick rcon access