Installation (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS)

Introduction

This is a basic guide on how to install SkyFire_548 and SFDB from scratch. **Please note this is a work in progress and only contains enough information to get most people a viable server in Linux.

Prerequisites

The compilation of SkyFire_548 and the setup of SFDB will require certain packages to be installed. In Ubuntu 24.04 use the following command:

sudo apt-get install g++ make cmake git wget libssl-dev libreadline-dev bzip2

You may also want to install phpmyadmin and/or Apache. Do not forget the user and password for the Mysql root user.

Installing MySQL Start by downloading the rpm.

PLACEHOLDER TILL MYSQL RELEASE!

Installing ACE

sudo apt-get install libace-dev

Compiling and Installing the SkyFire 5.4.8

Grab the latest version of SkyFire_548 using git:

git clone -b main https://codeberg.org/ProjectSkyfire/SkyFire_548.git

This should create a directory called SkyFire_548 that will contain all the files necessary to compile the server and it's tools. Change to the directory, configure, and build.

cd SkyFire_548
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DTOOLS=1
make -j(#cores+1)
sudo make install