We now have a frickin master server thanks to Pingu! Pingu is a friend I’ve had since way back, back when I was barely getting into computers. Back then he was experimenting with Linux (I remember, because he was still dual booting.). Anyways, he got really hooked on Linux and he got hired by a Linux oriented company at 15 (He’s my age). He’s now a Gentoo developer. But anyways, one day I sent him an email asking if he’d be kind enough to at least run the master server for us. He agreed, but has been busy and said the only way he could get the server running any quicker was if I created a Debian Package (.deb), so I gave in and started reading The Debian New Maintainer’s Guide. After skipping lots of stuff here and there, I finally came up with my very own package for my modified version of dpmaster, the master server.
Well, it turned out that it depended on a newer version of libc6 which the server didn’t have. So Pingu was kind enough to use debootstrap to set up a dapper tree in my home directory, to which he then chrooted and did the rest for me. After creating the new Debian package (It’s in the downloads section), he installed it and it ran perfectly. Well, I started having problems but I soon fixed them.
Anyways, what this means is that people can now create Dedicated Servers easily. And when they do, they’ll show up on the Internet Games list. This is to get ready for Malikith’s promised server, which will be our very first. Just letting you guys know I’m still working hard on this!