Excoecaria Agallocha
Corp 54
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2016.08.13 02:06:33 -
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When I first started looking at EVE on Linux It was a huge disappointment to find so little information. I had been told by some of the veteran members of Providence "Linux? Yeah there used to be some people running EVE on Linux, well a couple of years ago, before the first goon war and before sound mind, when you had to warp uphill both ways to gates......".
For any Debian users out there I just did a clean install of debian 8.5.0 kde, and this process worked for me.
1. Do the Linux install process. I used the GUI and just went with the defaults.
2. Open a shell ( click the 'K' | All Applications | System | Terminal and use wget/curl to download the CCP Snorlax eve launcher. By default you'll be in your home directory, while this doesn't feel as clean as a package that would instal to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin just deal with it.
#you don't need to sudo this and its probably going to break things later if you do
wget https://binaries.eveonline.com/evelauncher-1043593.tar.gz
#it would be nice if there was a symlink to /evelauncher-current.tar.gz so a change of versions doesn't break scripts or instructions.
3. Since other posts that got EVE to work for different Linux distributions said to I installed the same stuff they did
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
#i dunno why they need to do this but a good guess is people who have posted issues with missing library files probably means a program wants 32 bit libs that don't get installed on a 64 bit setup by default.
sudo apt-get install libpng12-0:i386 libldap-2.4:i386
#libgnutls30:i386 was also listed in a post, but in debian this package doesn't exist, the closest is libgnutls28 but it has C and C++ specific packages. Not knowing which to use I left the package off completely.
4. I have an nvidia graphics card, so i have to install drivers from the non-free and the contrib repositories so I have to modify my apt sources.list. For the lazy you can cut and paste this one into the console. There was a prompt for me but you can safely ignore it.
sudo sed -i 's/main/main contrib non-free/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver
#this can take a little while
#previous command gave me a warning about missing firmware so I did this next one that probably doesn't apply to everyone
#sudo apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree
sudo apt-get install nvidia-xconfig
sudo nvidia-xconfig
#i really didn't change anything in the nividia applet its just what the nvidia instructions said to do and I closed it after not finding anything interesting.
4. I rebooted my computer to load the nvidia drivers, the firmware modules and the updated xconfig. It might sound like a lot but one thing I've learned about windows and linux is that when you put a driver on its usually best to do a reboot. Just click the 'K' and
5. Re-open a shell.
tar -xvf evelauncher-1043593.tar.gz
cd evelauncher
./evelauncher.sh
6. Eve launcher is now running! At least it did for me at this point. :-)
The CCP Snorlax launcher is outstanding, great work!
At this rate I won't have to pay for the next Windows OS and can blow all that money on PLEX instead... |