kubuntUO - RunUO linux for human beings

Setup Kubuntu Proxy for APT-GET or WGET

2008-02-06T06:38:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

This is just a mental post for me. I can never remember where to add the proxy settings for apt-get and wget. There are several places. This one seems to work best with Kubuntuo 7.10

sudo kate /home/test/.bashrc

export http_proxy=http://http.com:8000
export https_proxy=http://https.com:8000
export ftp_proxy=http://ftp.com:8000

NOTE: test is the local user name

-Ravon

Good Bye to kubuntUO.com

2007-11-26T09:09:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

The domain of kubuntUO.com will expire at the end of the year and since RunUO now has a forum and a forge for Linux I will pass on renewing this domain.

If you would like to come back here for reference that would be great. This blog is hosted on Googles' Blogger so it will always be here...

http://kubuntuo.blogspot.com/

I think I will continue my work at the RunUO forge which can be found here...

http://www.runuoforge.org/gf/project/linux/

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know

-Ravon

Moving Development File

2007-10-19T09:48:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I will be moving my develop file to the new RunUO Forge. The RunUO Forge will hopefully help improve tracking and allow better development.

http://www.runuoforge.org/gf/project/linux/

For now, I will maintain both sites, since I have a lot of documentation here.

-Ravon

kubuntu ShipIt Pre-Order

2007-10-11T05:36:00.001-07:00

Greetings,

kubuntu is now accepting pre-orders for kubuntu 7.10, due out any day now. It's free - the OS, the disk and the shipping!

https://shipit.kubuntu.org/

-Ravon

Real Quick

2007-09-15T20:26:00.001-07:00

Greetings,

It's kinda late so I'll keep it simple. SVN 247 + these files.

I was able to transfer my .net SAVE folder and get it to work.

Good Nite!

-Ravon

Offical Support from RunUO

2007-09-13T06:39:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

With great news, RunUO now has "Server Support on Mono" forum.

Welcome to the Mono support forum :) - 09-12-2007, 02:21 PM

RunUO 2.0 is working on Mono and we're workign to keep it that way

Ryan McAdams
RunUO Team - Project Manager

The next step is world domination.

This is great news and with the recent SVN updates we are getting very close to having a fully functional Linux version of RunUO.

-Ravon

http://www.runuo.com/forums/server-support-mono/

YES - RunUO now works on Linux

2007-09-07T21:46:00.000-07:00

YES!!

RunUO v2 SVN 232 is now Linux compatible! A big thanks to the guys over at RunUO, who put in extra effort this weekend to fix the "holes" issues as well as several other bugs that we all have collected over the last few months.

I am running it now and it preforms very well. I am sure that are small bugs here and there, but for the main part it is up and running!

It's 1:00 a.m., I dead tired. I will write more on this and what you need to do to get it going.

Thanks to everyone that helped get this going.

-Ravon

VMware, a great way to test RunUO

2007-09-06T05:01:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I will take a quick little break to tell you about a new program I am using. This program is all the rage in the IT world, however, I have not taken the time to learn about it until recently. VMware - Virtual Machine Software.

VMware allows you to create "stand alone" PCs on one single computer. I know your first thought is WHY? My second thought was HOW SLOW!

Well to answer your first question WHY. Because you can. The first feature of VMware that I found quickly answered my WHY question. The feature call SNAPSHOT. It takes a picture of the virtual PC and save it. Then you can go in a completely mess up the VM. Once it gets too bad, click REVERT and tada your VM is clean again. I have begun to use this feature when trying to figure out the best way to install MONO and MONODEVELOP.

As for the SPEED, I have a P4 Dual Core, with 2g Ram. I have the VM setup as a P4 with 512m RAM. It runs very nice. Kept in mind it's running Kubuntu, with a Kubuntu VM. I also have Windows XP with 512m RAM, Smoothwall v3.0 and FreeNAS running as VM's.

On my other PC with a P4 HT with 1g Ram, it runs a bit slower, however, I have just XP running.

If you run VMwaree, which has an open source version, get as much RAM as you can.

Oh, and now on to the good stuff. Installing VMware was very easy. Instead of reposting the direction, just take a look at this site. www.ubuntugeek.com

If you get a chance to try it, let me know what you think!

-Ravon

Mono 1.2.5 has been Released

2007-09-04T05:12:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Thank you to Sabaoth for sending me a message about Mono finally being update. Sabaoth has already started putting together an update fix for RunUO. I am in the process of updating my Kubuntu system (now running a VMware setting for better testing). Once I am done I give Sabaoth updates a run through.

Here's the link... http://www.runuo.com/forums/server-support/85220-linux-again-but-getting-close-run.html

-Ravon

Improvements to RunUO v2 r199

2007-08-13T11:31:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Well it has been awhile since I have received any good news about getting RunUO v2 SVN to work on Linux. I am mainly waiting for a new version of Mono, they are stuck at v1.2.4, which does not work.

I did get a bit of good news from the RunUO bug site. They fixed "AutoSave.cs" (folder structure) and "Common.MAP" (name case issue). This simply means that there will now be two less modification we need to make to get RunUO to work on Linux.

Mono seems to release new version every 4 months or so. Hopefully, we will see one before the end of September.

-Ravon

Windows XP + Mono = RunUO

2007-05-11T19:08:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I had a chance to setup a Windows XP box, with Mono 1.2.3. I then installed the Mono modified version of SVN181.

Comping the scripts worked just fine and the warning messages appeared the same as they do in Linux.

Starting RunUO, I needed to do "mono runuo.exe" and this took forever. I would say 30-45 minutes, compared to 3-5 minutes on .Net. Just a personal note...Why would you ever run Mono on XP if you have .NET. This is the performance killer combination!

Anyway, it finally did run. I was able to log in and move about. Unfortunately, the "invisible walls" and "holes" in the map are still present. I will admit there seems to be fewer "invisible walls". In stead of 4-6 squares, there are just 1-2 squares in a row.

"Holes" or anytime you go up stairs, you will drop to the point you cannot move.

So, there you have it. Map issues appear to be related to Mono missing stuff. What stuff? I wish I knew.

If you have any suggestions please let us know!

-Ravon

Time for another type of test.

2007-05-10T11:28:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Windows, Linux, .net or Mono - what, who, how and why?

We are getting closer or maybe we are still stuck in the same place. Several admins have been able to get RunUO up and running now, however, it is not yet practical to run a public shard.

My next test, in order to narrow down the problem will be to build a XP box and install Mono for Windows

Here are my thoughts...

If RunUO works fine with XP and Mono for Windows, then the problem is Linux - the file name, folder structure or something along that line. Remember Linux is case sensitive.

If RunUO has the same problems using XP and Mono for Windows, then it is truely a Mono issue. The actual RunUO scripts, at that point, would have to be re-written to handle the problem.

So, tonight I will sacrifice my kubuntu 6.10 computer to Bill Gates and load Windows XP on it. Hopefully by the weekend I will have new information for everyone.

-Ravon

Do we have a solution?

2007-04-30T05:43:00.001-07:00

Greetings,

Good news, robotclown has posted updates for RunUO svn 181 to work with ubuntu. I did not have a chance to play with it over the weekend. Hopefully, I will this week. If you have time, let me know how it works for you!

http://www.runuo.com/forums/other/82121-runuo-2-0-svn181-built-linux-linux.html

-Ravon

Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

2007-04-18T06:27:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I have not forgotten you. I am patiently waiting for the new release of kubuntu v7.04. I hope RunUO will run better with the new and updated software.

In the meanwhile, here is an interesting interview with the founder of ubuntuo - Mark Shuttleworth.

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2845484

-Ravon

What MoMA says about RunUO

2007-03-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

In an article I was reading, about Miguel de Icaza the founder of the Mono project, they talked about a new program call MoMA. This program checks your .dll and tells you if your program will transfer correctly to Mono. It also prints a report of the features that do not work. So, here is the report on RunUO v2 SVN 162 (this is the acutal RunUO copy not a modified one with the fixes I have been gathering)...

http://www.geocities.com/ravontus/kubuntuo/moma_report_for_runuov2r162xp.html

I sent in the report with the hopes that they may consider fixing some of the issues in the next Mono release.

-Ravon

Linux and OSI Encryption

2007-03-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Client encryption is a issue that each user needs to work around. On the server end, it looks like this...

Client: 127.0.0.1: Connected. [1 Online]
Client: 127.0.0.1: Encrypted client detected, disconnecting
Client: 127.0.0.1: Disconnected. [0 Online]

If you are on a Windows PC, the answer is simple - use ConnectUO or Razor. (NOTE: In the past you could use UOGateway, however, since client version v5.0.7.x it will not work).

If your on a Linux PC, you will soon find out that neither of these programs work. What to do?

Try using UO RICE. This program (requires Wine) will create a new file called No_Encryption_2D_Client.exe. Next change the "login.cfg" file by adding the shards IP address and port (usally 2593).

http://uo.pspace.at/UO_RICE.htm

-Ravon

Mapping Improvements?

2007-03-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I may have found a fix for the holes in the map. I need to test it before I post the results. Keep your fingers crossed.

I was thinking, since the RunUO code has not been updated, maybe some of the old fixes now work with mono v1.2.3.1. After reviewing tilematrix.cs and tilematrixpatch.cs, I notice that the way they read the files for MS.NET is different than MONO. The other files - Main.cs and FileOperations.cs also were written the same way. So, I adapted the "using System.Runtime.InteropServices;" statement and the "[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport( "Kernel32" )]" sections of code.

Now when I run the server I get the following notice...

RunUO - [www.runuo.com] Version 2.0, Build 2635.19910
Core: Running on .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727
Core: Optimizing for 2 processors
Scripts: Compiling C# scripts...done (0 errors, 0 warnings)
Scripts: Compiling VB.NET scripts...no files found.
Scripts: Verifying...done (2089 items, 497 mobiles)
Regions: Loading...
Warning: Land EOS for Felucca (167, 249)
Warning: Land EOS for Ilshenar (105, 88)
Warning: Land EOS for Malas (124, 64)
Warning: Land EOS for Tokuno (32, 97)
done
World: Loading...done (0 items, 0 mobiles) (0.01 seconds)
This server has no accounts.
Creating Username: admin Password: admin
Account created.

Warning: Land error description can be found here although it is vague. I am hoping it will chop out the holes or point us in a better direction.

-Ravon

Five Warnings

2007-03-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I am still stuck with 5 warnings that seem out of place. I do not know if fixing will help, but that is where I am going to focus for a little while. Here are the errors if you have a suggestion.

./Item.cs(1848,23): warning CS0169: The private method `Server.Item.SetSaveFlag(ref Server.Item.SaveFlag, Server.Item.SaveFlag, bool)' is never used
./Timer.cs(472,22): warning CS0414: The private field `Server.Timer.m_QueueCountAtSlice' is assigned but its value is never used
./ScriptCompiler.cs(531,22): warning CS0169: The private method `Server.ScriptCompiler.LoadScriptedAssembly(System.Collections.Generic.List, string, Server.ScriptCompiler.Compiler, bool)' is never used
./Gumps/Gump.cs(370,18): warning CS0169: The private method `Server.Gumps.Gump.Compile()' is never used
./Persistence/FileQueue.cs(39,16): warning CS0414: The private field `Server.FileQueue.Chunk.offset' is assigned but its value is never used
Compilation succeeded - 5 warning(s)

-Ravon

Convert Uppercase to Lowercase in Linux

2007-03-17T07:38:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Someone suggested converting all the Ultima On-line files to lowercase. Since Linux is case sensitive, I thought I would give it a try. Open Konsole in the folder you wish to convert. Here is the command...

for i in `find * -depth`; do (mv $i `echo $i|tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`); done

BTW: I did not help any.

-Ravon

Live Shard

2007-03-16T04:31:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Hopefully over the weekend, I will be able to convert An Nox from a XP .NET server to kubutnu/mono server.

I still have not been able to fix the holes. Hopefully having a up and running server will get me a useful "sandbox" to figure a way around the issues.

I have added RSS, My Yahoo, and My Google links so you and access updates to kubuntUO updates and post.

If you wish to join me in this adventure, please let me know in the forums or via e-mail.

-Ravon

Latest File Update 08MAR2007

2007-03-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

It's been awhile. Here is my latest update. I would agree with nemeri that it works, however, there are alot of holes, invisible blocks, and when you create doors most are off the mark.

I am not sure how to address this issue at this time.

Hopefully, someone smarter than I will be able to use what we have put together and post back here some improvements.

-Ravon

INSTALLATION NOTES:
Get SVN 160
Copy these files over the top and compile the server.
Change datapath.cs to reflect the location of your UO files.

kubuntUO-08MAR2007.zip

Side Note: How To Forge

2007-03-07T05:13:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

This is a little off subject, however, it may come in handy for those who are new to Linux and want to learn more.

I found a fabulous site full of "How To's". This site, unlike so many others, appears to be very clean, professional, and well documented with both text and pictures (who reads the manual anyway).

Give HowToForge a try.

http://www.howtoforge.com/

-Ravon

Elephants do not bite.

2007-03-07T04:17:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

Well after two week of wasting time, I finally realized the cause of my problems.

About two weeks ago, I had RunUO almost up and running when, for not apparent reason I could no longer connect. I decided to wipe everything and start overs. Rebuilding everything went quickly. However, once it was all done I still could not connect. Thus all the posting about iptables and such.

Last night, I realized it was not my Kubuntu PC, it was ConnectUO on my Windows box. It was message up. I deleted it and installed the latest version and now I am back on-line.

What did I learn? Elephants don't bite.

Have you ever been bitten by an elephants? hippo? or dragon?

How about a nat, misqueto, no-seeme?

It is not the big things that get you, it is the little things. If there is a big problem, look for something small that might be causing it.

-Ravon

MONO development with ubuntu

2007-03-02T12:14:00.000-08:00

Greetings,

This is a little off the subject, but not by too much...

Here is an interesting site that has information about the development of MONO into ubuntu. Hopefully the next version of kubuntu, due out in April, will support the latest version of Mono 1.2.3.1.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mono

You can also find a list of bugs. One of my favorites, leads into whether or not MONO can be packaged with ubuntu now that Microsoft and Novell have made a patent agreement.

After reading all of this, I think maybe for now it would be better to manual compile MONO, instead of using Linux Installer for x86 (all distribution) package.

Since I cannot seem to connect any more, I wiped and reloaded everything with the newer version MONO, maybe I will try that. Otherwise, I will have to revert back to kubuntu Server. I know that worked.

-Ravon

How to open Port 2593 with iptables - Update

2007-02-27T06:46:00.000-08:00

Greeting,

I recently posted how to change your iptables. This did not work last night when I tested it. I cannot connect to the server from another computer. What really makes me mad is the fact that I had the command and now I cannot find them. I would suggest installing a program called nmap, it is used to show open ports.

I think I will try the following...(I got the information from help.ubuntu.com.)

$ sudo iptables -L
$ sudo iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$ sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 2593 -j ACCEPT
$ sudo iptables-save

I will let you know how this works in tomorrow.

-Ravon