Multi Theft Auto server on Debian/Ubuntu
Installation 64 bit
Main binary
Download the latest stable 64 bit Linux binaries:
rm -f multitheftauto_linux_x64-1.5.3.tar.gz wget http://linux.mtasa.com/dl/153/multitheftauto_linux_x64-1.5.3.tar.gz
Unpack into a directory:
tar -xf multitheftauto_linux_x64-1.5.3.tar.gz
Default config
Download the default config files:
rm -f baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz wget http://linux.mtasa.com/dl/153/baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz
Unpack and move into the deathmatch directory:
(Note: Only do this for new installations as it will overwrite any existing config files.)
tar -xf baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz mv baseconfig/* multitheftauto_linux_x64-1.5.3/mods/deathmatch
Change to the MTA server install directory:
cd multitheftauto_linux_x64-1.5.3
Test
You can now test if the server will start correctly:
./mta-server64
Default resources
If you need the default resources: Download the latest default resources zip from http://mirror.mtasa.com/mtasa/resources/ and unzip into mods/deathmatch/resources
Make sure you are in the MTA server install directory when following this example:
apt-get install unzip mkdir mods/deathmatch/resources cd mods/deathmatch/resources rm -f mtasa-resources-latest.zip wget http://mirror.mtasa.com/mtasa/resources/mtasa-resources-latest.zip unzip mtasa-resources-latest.zip rm -f mtasa-resources-latest.zip cd ../../..
Installation 32 bit
Main binary
Download the latest stable 32 bit Linux binaries:
rm -f multitheftauto_linux-1.5.3.tar.gz wget http://linux.mtasa.com/dl/153/multitheftauto_linux-1.5.3.tar.gz
Unpack into a directory:
tar -xf multitheftauto_linux-1.5.3.tar.gz
Default config
Download the default config files:
rm -f baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz wget http://linux.mtasa.com/dl/153/baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz
Unpack and move into the deathmatch directory:
(Note: Only do this for new installations as it will overwrite any existing config files.)
tar -xf baseconfig-1.5.3.tar.gz mv baseconfig/* multitheftauto_linux-1.5.3/mods/deathmatch
Change to the MTA server install directory:
cd multitheftauto_linux-1.5.3
Test
You can now test if the server will start correctly:
./mta-server
Default resources
If you need the default resources: Download the latest default resources zip from http://mirror.mtasa.com/mtasa/resources/ and unzip into mods/deathmatch/resources
Make sure you are in the MTA server install directory when following this example:
apt-get install unzip mkdir mods/deathmatch/resources cd mods/deathmatch/resources rm -f mtasa-resources-latest.zip wget http://mirror.mtasa.com/mtasa/resources/mtasa-resources-latest.zip unzip mtasa-resources-latest.zip rm -f mtasa-resources-latest.zip cd ../../..
Running with 32 or 64 bit Linux
Make sure your server libraries and stuff are up to date
On Debian/Ubuntu this is done with:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
Troubleshooting
- If you get a problem with such as "libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.", it can be solved on 32 bit Debian/Ubuntu by doing this:
apt-get install libreadline5
- If you get a problem with such as "libncursesw.so.5 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", it can be solved on 32 bit Debian/Ubuntu by doing this:
apt-get install libncursesw5
Note: If you experience this issue on a 64-bit machine while trying to run the 32-bit MTA server, then you should install the following package on a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu machine (as root):
apt-get install lib32ncursesw5
You can find more 32-bit library alternatives on this page: www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents.
MySQL Troubleshooting
- If you are using the inbuilt MySQL functions such as dbConnect and dbQuery, you will need to have libmysqlclient.so.16 installed.
- If you get a problem with such as "libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", it can be solved on Debian/Ubuntu by doing this:
apt-get install libmysqlclient16
If that fails:
- For 32 bit Linux, download 32 bit libmysqlclient.so.16 and put it in /usr/lib/
- For 64 bit Linux, download 64 bit libmysqlclient.so.16 and put it in /usr/lib/