[Debian / Ubuntu] 1-line script: install Minetest Git

[Lejo]

How can I delete the dev-0.5.0 release?
I need a server release of 0.4.17, I think this was a client release.
Edit: It is both?

[Krock]

I need a server release of 0.4.17, I think this was a client release.

Right, I forgot to mention the CMake options which let you build the server (minetestserver) without the client built-in.

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cmake . -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 -DBUILD_SERVER=1

If you want Minetest as a (more or less) portable package, also define the option " -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 ". If you have a desktop environment on the computer where you are building the server, then also check out the executable "cmake-gui".
More options: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ke-options

CMake does not offer a way to uninstall a system-wide installed application, so you'd have to remove the files either manually or parse the manifest file.

[Lejo]

Thanks! It works perfect.

[cHyper]

I need a server release of 0.4.17, I think this was a client release.

Right, I forgot to mention the CMake options which let you build the server (minetestserver) without the client built-in.

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cmake . -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 -DBUILD_SERVER=1

If you want Minetest as a (more or less) portable package, also define the option " -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 ". If you have a desktop environment on the computer where you are building the server, then also check out the executable "cmake-gui".
More options: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ke-options

CMake does not offer a way to uninstall a system-wide installed application, so you'd have to remove the files either manually or parse the manifest file.

+1; void *print() { cout <<"hello world"} LOL sorry... wrong way...

[izzyb]

How can I delete the dev-0.5.0 release?
I need a server release of 0.4.17, I think this was a client release.
Edit: It is both?

To build a 4.17 release from the source, you need to checkout the 4.17 release after your git clone of the source.
UPDATE: Thanks Lejo - use checkout stable-0.4 instead of checkout 0.4.17 as I originally indicated. That way you'll get the latest stable automatically if there is a new release.

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git clone https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
cd minetest
git checkout stable-0.4
cd games
git clone https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game.git
git checkout stable-0.4


Then do your cmake and make.

I recently figured this out, so please correct me if I have anything wrong here. I'm not sure how to get a list of branches, but found on my system tab completion produces a list if you type git checkout <tab><tab>. I'm sure there's a command to do the same, just not sure what it is.

[Lejo]

Thanks!
But it's: git checkout stable-0.4

[poikilos]

There is an issue in the original 1-line script that also was causing trouble in my version. I didn't notice this until recently. This is only an issue for silent install (such as in my case). If you are trying to make a silent install or remote install, the part where you run minetest should be removed:

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minetest;

Otherwise your cron job or whatever you are doing will get stuck.

[poikilos]

For some reason it wouldn't compile due to missing lua.h ("lua.h: no such file or directory") on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, even though present in ./lib/lua/src/lua.h (where . is git version of minetest). This happened even after installing libluajit-5.1-dev liblua5.1-0-dev as per the 1-line script, and lublua5.2-dev as guesswork. I had to add the

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-DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/luajit-2.1

option to cmake.

[grey]

Just in case anyone cares, I tested this on a current Xbuntu machine and it works.

[xeno]

and how do you uninstall it??

Just remove the minetest folder.

DOSENT WORCK ;(