Empyrian age is over us

So the new version of eve is over us. Will this work on Linux and will my client survive? It always a nice question as running the official client before was impossible on my laptop and the only way to run it was via wine. It run perfectly, usually. But sometimes it broke during patches and it took some time to fix wine to get it to work.

So while the eve system was down I spent some time trying to sync over all data from my old laptop to the new one.

First thing was to get all the installed applications installed the same way on the new machine. I found some references out on the net on how to dump the installed applications on the old machine to a file and then use that to install the same applications on the new one. So i tried that and it almost worked. Not quite.

To get all the installed applications out from a ubuntu/kubuntu or any debian based system you use the dpkg command and some grep and awk to make a nice list:

the command dpkg –get-selections gets all applications on the system. The grep then filters out only the installed ones and awk just prints out the package name.

Then do some editing of the list as there are some things you don’t want to install on the new system. Like i don’t want to install the fgl xorg drivers as i’m not using a ATI card on the new system, but already have installed the nvidia driver. So remove the following package in that case:

Then I removed all the linux version packages like linux-headers-2.6.20-15 and others like that as i dont want old version on the system.

I then transfered the list over to the new system and use xargs to get apt-get to install it. The documentation out there just did a cat on the file and piped it into xargs – if you do this and you get some questions from apt-get you get a break as the input is connected to /dev/null. So i used the command:

The -i flag tells xargs to use the file instead of stdin. and -n tell xargs to only do 10 args at a time.

Now it ran fine and I get a number of installs and I also had to say Y a number of times to install extra packages and so, but all in all I got all my applications installed now.

Empyrian Age

When I had installed everything I just – to make sure that the system still worked as it should – started up into the EVE client. I did not expect that the server would be back up, but it was. It asked if it should download the new patch and I said yes. It downloaded it and installed it – No problems. And finally I was in and all worked. A very nice patch indeed.

So i tested the official client also and that upgraded and installed a new version also without any problems.

So i can now run the new version of EVE. I’m happy.

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