Hi, since many people had troubles with outdated or plain wrong tutorials, I am writing a new one on how to prepare your Metin2 dedicated or VPS to run any kind of Metin2 files.
The first thing we should do is update our operating system to the latest version:
freebsd-update fetch install
Note: If you get a warning about End Of Life, consider upgrading to the most recent supported version (8.4, 9.3 or 10.1). If you have FreeBSD 8.2 for example, you can upgrade to 8.4 with:
freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.4-RELEASE
Now we are going to extract or update the ports, depending on whether you extracted them before or not, you have to run either of these commands:
portsnap fetch extract
if it's the first time, or:
portsnap fetch update
if it's not the first time you download ports.
If we are running a 64 bit version of FreeBSD, we will install the 32 bit libraries now. Replace the version number in the link below with your FreeBSD's version number. You can find out which version you are running with uname -a.
cd /tmp
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/re...EASE/lib32.txz
tar xfp lib32.txz -C /
Note: If you get an error here about not being able to unlink existing object, this means that you already have them installed.
Now it's time to install mysql 5.6, the most recent version, as it performs better than the older ones.
pkg install mysql56-server
Note: If this command fails for you, you need to install the pkg tool:
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
make install UPGRADEPKG=1 clean
pkg2ng
Next we add it to start on boot:
echo "mysql_enable=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
And start MySQL server:
service mysql-server start
After uploading your database, give the correct permissions and upgrade your tables to the server's version:
chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql
mysql_upgrade
Optional
Running old files
Install the compatibility packages to use games compiled for old versions of FreeBSD.
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat7x
make install clean
We can install the compat8x, compat9x, etc. if we need compatibility with those operating systems in a newer version. Library errors are often solved by installing these packages.
Installing python for qc
pkg install python
OVH
Kimsufi, SoYouStart and OVH dedicated servers use some custom installation of FreeBSD and will throw an error when trying to run or install MySQL. You need to rebuild the password database to fix it with this command:
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
The first thing we should do is update our operating system to the latest version:
freebsd-update fetch install
Note: If you get a warning about End Of Life, consider upgrading to the most recent supported version (8.4, 9.3 or 10.1). If you have FreeBSD 8.2 for example, you can upgrade to 8.4 with:
freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.4-RELEASE
Now we are going to extract or update the ports, depending on whether you extracted them before or not, you have to run either of these commands:
portsnap fetch extract
if it's the first time, or:
portsnap fetch update
if it's not the first time you download ports.
If we are running a 64 bit version of FreeBSD, we will install the 32 bit libraries now. Replace the version number in the link below with your FreeBSD's version number. You can find out which version you are running with uname -a.
cd /tmp
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/re...EASE/lib32.txz
tar xfp lib32.txz -C /
Note: If you get an error here about not being able to unlink existing object, this means that you already have them installed.
Now it's time to install mysql 5.6, the most recent version, as it performs better than the older ones.
pkg install mysql56-server
Note: If this command fails for you, you need to install the pkg tool:
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
make install UPGRADEPKG=1 clean
pkg2ng
Next we add it to start on boot:
echo "mysql_enable=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
And start MySQL server:
service mysql-server start
After uploading your database, give the correct permissions and upgrade your tables to the server's version:
chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql
mysql_upgrade
Optional
Running old files
Install the compatibility packages to use games compiled for old versions of FreeBSD.
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat7x
make install clean
We can install the compat8x, compat9x, etc. if we need compatibility with those operating systems in a newer version. Library errors are often solved by installing these packages.
Installing python for qc
pkg install python
OVH
Kimsufi, SoYouStart and OVH dedicated servers use some custom installation of FreeBSD and will throw an error when trying to run or install MySQL. You need to rebuild the password database to fix it with this command:
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
