This article is aimed at installing and getting rAthena to run successfully on a machine running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. It is assumed that FreeBSD was installed with the ports collection and enabled Linux Threading on install. This guide will NOT teach you how to network FreeBSD, install FreeBSD or configure any additional system settings (besides the ones needed to run rAthena and its dependancies).

We will primarily working from the /home/user directory. Your primary user will need to be in the 'wheel' group and be able to su into root. Remember that I will include either $ or #, depending on who you should be. $ indicates you should be your primary user, and # indicates you should be root.

We are going to use FreeBSD's ports collection to download, install and use most of these programs. It is assumed you already installed the ports collection, if you have not, I suggest you do that now.

wget is Linux's download manager and is a very handy tool to have regardless of if we're going to use it.

# whereis wget
wget: /usr/ports/www/wget
# cd /usr/ports/www/wget && make && make install
# make clean
# rehash

gmake, or GNUMake, is the GCC compiler used for FreeBSD. This is how we will create our binaries.

 # whereis gmake
gmake: /usr/ports/devel/gmake
# cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake && make && make install
# make clean
# rehash

unrar is a tool to unrar .rar's in BSD.

 # whereis unrar
unrar: /usr/ports/archivers/unrar
$ cd /usr/ports/archivers/unrar
$ make clean
$ make install
$ rehash

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection and front ends for C, C++ and other languages. Chances are this will already be installed on the machine, but if not, here's what we do:

# wget http://www.netgull.com/gnu/gcc/gcc-###.tar.gz (Where ## is the version number. visit the mirror to find out)
# tar -xvf gcc-###.tar.gz
# cd gcc*
# make && make install
# make clean
# rehash

GDB is always handy to have on a development machine, as it can take backtraces of crashes and lay them out for you to see what went wrong. chances are, this will also be installed with FreeBSD, but if it's not, here's how we will install it:

# wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-###.tar.gz (again, where ### is the version number, check out the mirror)
# tar -xvf gdb-###.tar.gz
# cd gdb*
# make && make install
# make clean
# rehash

Git is the versioning system used for rAthena and how we will get our copy of rAthena.

# whereis git
git: /usr/ports/devel/git
# cd /usr/ports/devel/git && make && make install
# make clean
# rehash

Now, let's go ahead and download rAthena. We'll use git for this.

$ su root
# adduser //create a rathena user
# exit
$ su rathena
$ cd /home/rathena
$ git clone https://github.com/rathena/rathena.git rathena
$

Now, we can populate the tables with the .sql files in rAthena. Navigate to your /sql-files/ folder in the rAthena files you just checked out.

$ cd /home/rathena/rathena/sql-files
$ mysql -uuser -ppassword ragnarok < main.sql
$ mysql -uuser -ppassword ragnarok < logs.sql

Now, you'll want to follow the steps in the :Category:Configuration and Connecting pages to get your rAthena configured. Once you've made all your source changes, you can compile rAthena. While you're in the root of your rAthena folder, issue the following commands to compile your server:

$ ./configure
$ gmake clean
$ gmake server
$ rehash

Important Note: If you are using a 32 bit FreeBSD you have to use

$ ./configure --disable-64bit

instead

NOTE: You should NEVER run rAthena as root! This is why you should have setup a new user and this is why you've assigned him/her permissions in the /home/rathena/rathena/ directory! NB : It's better to compile as user instead of root as you wont have permision to alter output file.

And to start your servers, you can simply use the following command:

$ ./athena-start <command> (start | stop | restart | status)

And that should be it! You should now have a running rAthena on your FreeBSD machine!

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