D2OL and linux guide!

[chipmonk010]

alright so i recently switched a couple rigs over to linux for various reasons and in the process have come up with some nice info about running D2OL in linux that i thought i would share. i know someone was asking about this awhile back, anyway maybe its will even convince some of u to convert lol. anywho here goes...

1. loading the GUI version on a linux system (pretty basic)
go here: http://www.d2ol.com/dOL/download_instructions.html
download the GUI installer with Java
*in this example the installer was downloaded to /usr/src/
once downloaded just enter this into terminal window
cd /usr/src (wherever u downloaded the file to)
chmod 755 installDDOL.bin
./installDDOL.bin
the setup proggy will start and just follow the instructions to install

2.load the non-GUI version
download the non-GUI version of the client with java from the link above
its a tar.gz file, when i downloaded it, i just opened it directly from the internet with a filemanager
and un-tared it to /usr/src but you can also save the tar.gz file to ur hard drive and un-tar from the
terminal with this comand:
tar zxvf /usr/src/guilessInstallDDOL.tar.gz
once un-tared u have a folder called SengentD2OL (in my case /usr/src/SengentD2OL)
now make a directory called /D2OL and copy the contents of SengentD2OL into the new directory
your should have two folders in your /D2OL folder /D2ol/D2OL and /D2OL/jre
now go into D2OL/res and open the general.prp file chage the field "LaunchMain" to false
at this point if you are reinstalling d2ol copy your node.prp file into /D2OL/D2OL/res folder
now for the moment of truth!!
pop open a terminal window and type the following:
cd /D2OL/D2OL
./D2OL controller:cli
(u must type the above exactly to run in text mode)
if all is well it should start up no problem. this should run fine on almost any major distro, but if u get error post here and ill try to help.
running in text mode has many advantages besides taking up less resources, you can also run it on a system that doesnt have a Desktop Manager.



much more to come! running as a service more complicated stuff i just wanted to get this up for now. will add more soon!