Linux Operating System And Industrial Craft

I heard from Mac's that it's a bit difficult to modify the MC.jar because they don't merge folders in the .jar file. No idea if that is true for linux too. But it's not something that will stop you from using Mods, but might cause some errors if you try it first.

Hate every encounter with linux as a desktop OS, but love it as a server OS.

Quote from Alblaka

The only known issue with Linux in regard of IC is it's nasty habit to ignore alphabetical order, which can essentiall cause addons to malfunction if they are loaded before IC2 is.
However, i've read the most recent ML version fixes this problem. Not entirely sure though.

If the new version of ML does not indeed fix the load order issue, I have a workaround that has proven successful on my own server. I made a 50mb file formatted as a vfat file system and mounted that file as my 'mods' folder. This causes the files in the mods folder to be loaded similar to the way Windows orders the files to load.

If needed I can provide more details, if anyone needs just PM me to remind me to do it when I'm not on my laptop.

i am running minecraft on linux too and without problem.and with some addons too. there is only one nasty bug with key stuck which can be fixed by updating lwjgl.

btw from my experience linux return files in order which were copied into directory. so you just need copy ic2.jar into mods directory first and then addons.

Quote from nou_spiro

i am running minecraft on linux too and without problem.and with some addons too. there is only one nasty bug with key stuck which can be fixed by updating lwjgl.
btw from my experience linux return files in order which were copied into directory. so you just need copy ic2.jar into mods directory first and then addons.

it is really the ctime? when it is the mtime then a simple "touch filename" can do the job also.

Quote from Moriarty

it is really the ctime? when it is the mtime then a simple "touch filename" can do the job also.

Then you have to do that every time you change anything- either copy all your mods one by one and in order, or touch the mods one by one in order. Add a mod? Update a mod? You'll have to manually sort the load order every time.

Or you can set up a vfat that acts like it's own windows filesystem and fix the problem permanently... assuming the most recent ML doesn't fix it.

Not realy with the -m switch you can set the mtime of a file

and by the way what the problem with a command like:

find . -name "mod_*" -exec touch {} \;

I use Linux to run Minecraft on my games machine and it works like a charm. The only issue I had was that block IDs on my system were generated differently to that of other systems, so I had to be given Redpower and BC config files to play on the SMP server which I frequent. Oddly enough, IC generated its block IDs just fine.

Of course, when we updated the server, it then generated block IDs that corresponded with nobody else's except mine. So now we're handing out config files to everyone except me...

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Of course, when we updated the server, it then generated block IDs that corresponded with nobody else's except mine. So now we're handing out config files to everyone except me...

Same thing happened to me, I'm working on a small config sync script that will sync the config files I have (server-side) with my friends on the client side to try to fix that. Not going so well.

EDIT: If you're going to be setting up a server, OS-wise I'd say go with MineOS+: MineOS+ - Home. It's nice and simple, and it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. I used it's predecessor, and really enjoyed it (until some griefer crashed the server, found him though)

Steam can work with Linux when run under WINE, but requires a bit of work.

Ubuntu is good for those just getting comfortable with Linux (Linux Mint works too.)

There is a program that is like Steam, can't remember it's name, though. I'll edit with it's name once I do find it though.

EDIT: Okay, my hunch was right, it's called Desura.

Link to it's page: http://www.desura.com/

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Is linux compatibility the reason you posted it?

More or less...

Well, I've found Desura to be a fairly decent substitute for Steam in many cases and figured it could work for you until such a time that Valve decides to support the *nix side of the OS line.