Any idea which Debian packages I need for Firearms 3.0?

**Drek** · 22nd June 2020,06:53 PM

Trying to setup a Firearms 3.0 server on my Linux server box. I'm running into an sdtc++6 error. Wondering if you would happen to know which Debian packages I would need to install? Been over a decade since I tried to setup an hlds server, and I'm more than a little rusty.

The error I'm getting is as follows:

Code:

LoadLibrary failed on l/sh▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒r▒▒▒O▒▒▒P▒▒▒O▒▒▒: l/sh▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒r▒▒▒O▒▒▒P▒▒▒O▒▒▒: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from l/sh▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒r▒▒▒O▒▒▒P▒▒▒O▒▒▒!
FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from l/sh▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒P▒▒▒r▒▒▒O▒▒▒P▒▒▒O▒▒▒!

**Drek** · 22nd June 2020,07:15 PM

Ignore this post. This was a screw up...

**Drek** · 22nd June 2020,07:17 PM

Metamod-P always one of those miraculous pieces of coding that just worked, but you had no idea why it worked. I kinda think the original developer was a certified genius.

**RoboCop** · 22nd June 2020,09:25 PM

https://github.com/APGRoboCop/metamod-p try my modified version.

**Drek** · 22nd June 2020,10:21 PM

Thanks, I'll do that.

**Drek** · 28th June 2020,01:49 PM

Ignore my above post about metamod. That's not metamod-p and it is outdated.

**Drek** · 5th July 2020,11:06 PM

After a week of banging my head against the wall with this I discovered that I had put "+[mapname]" instead of "+map [mapname]" in my hlds_run command line. I'm halfway between extremely annoyed and elated.

In the meantime I created a startup script that can dynamically generate a mapcycle.txt containing only maps that are both installed and have bot waypoints for, and that randomly picks a starting map.

It really wasn't a wasted week, I did learn, and relearn, a lot. I'm just very glad I didn't do a nuke and pave. At one point I thought the problem was that Firearms wasn't going to run on Debian bullseye, so I was considering doing a format and installing buster instead.

**Drek** · 5th July 2020,11:07 PM

What is interesting is that Firearms 3.0 won't load on Linux if you try to load the game library directly with no mods, but it will run with the Metamod-P that Robocop has available here. So thanks Mr. Robocop.