Issues Starting Server

[Tylor Smith]

We are trying to get a server running and are running into some issues. We just want to run a small, unlisted server for less than 10 players; we are using the free trial VM from Google Cloud [2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM]. We have put in a lot of work and have done our best at trying to get a minetest server running but we've run into some technical difficulties, and have not been able to get it finished.

I am following a tutorial on YouTube by Damon Lee Gang: https://youtu.be/c7D3aK-8rew
We are trying to do everything exactly how he shows.

First I had to install cmake on the VPS, I used this tutorial: https://linuxhint.com/install-cmake-on-debian/ (using tar.gz)
And also install zip, unzip, and git.

Then I followed the video tutorial:
He starts by downloading a zip file to install Minetest, from Github.
I copied this link:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/ar ... able-5.zip
And used
"wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/ar ... able-5.zip"
Next I used "mv" to rename the file to "minetest".
Then used "rm -rf" to delete zip.

Next "cd minetest", then
"git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game.git games/minetest_game"

Then I tried to use
"cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 -DBUILD_SERVER=1"

and it kept giving me errors that I was missing libraries. (zlib, jpeg, png, etc) So I found this list to install them, by user duane in one of the Minetest forums:
"sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev"

Then it said Irrlicht was wrong so I tried to install "https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht/ar ... .0mt10.zip" using "wget", and then unzipped, deleted the zip and the previous irrlicht using "rm -rf".

Then it said it found Irrlicht 1.9.0.11, and still needed Irrlicht 1.9.0mt10.

I don't know why this happened?

We just want to get an unlisted server running for less than 10 friends, maybe there's a better way? :)

If I could get "cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 -DBUILD_SERVER=1" to work, the next 2 commands in the video were supposed to be
"make -j$(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo"
and
"./bin/minetestserver"

Then there's still mods to be installed, which I also don't know how to do.

But I think the "make" command maybe should be "make -j$(nproc)" instead of what he uses in the video? From what I saw on the Github page.

I don't know much code so I'm mostly just trying to copy what I can find online, and I think some of the things I'm trying might be outdated... maybe someone can tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks :)

[Festus1965]

...
And used
"wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/ar ... able-5.zip"
Next I used "mv" to rename the file to "minetest".
Then used "rm -rf" to delete zip.
...

missing the part to dezip, decompress
and the folder should be names minetest
that then contains the mt files
also missing download a game, and decompress into a folder at folder games

so far, a yes the irrlicht problem
edit the CMakeLists.txt, Line 130
"set(TARGET_VER_S 1.9.0mt11)"
and change to the version you have got (1.9.0mt10) - it will run, I did that already 3 times as even same day download, mt wants other irrlicht version than there is

first bring the server to run,
and once you have set up server and can access it with your client,

then just take the mods you want, and copy/decompress it into the mods folder (there is a text file "mods_here.txt)
then you have to edit the 'world.mt' in the world folder file and add or change found mods to true
"load_mod_baobab = true" - for each mod an own line, if false mod is there but will not be loaded

[Desour]

edit the CMakeLists.txt, Line 130

No, you don't have to edit any CMakeLists.txt files.

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Make sure the irrlicht repo folder is at lib/irrlichtmt. And try deleting the CMakeCache.txt file.

[LRV]

Topic moved to 'Problems'.