'spells file is outdated' - Ubuntu on Dell D630

[dmorawski]

Okay - so I manually copied each of the patch files over the drive_h/Program\ Files\p99 folder and had to overwrite files in each case. I'm still get the 'spells file outdated' message.

Kind of at a loss. One thing I will say is that my drive_h (where p99 is installed) is not a subdirectory of $WINEPREFIX, which gets set to /home/dmorawski/.wine when I launch p99. However, I setup drive_h using winecfg and it seems to be finding the files without issue, just not the most up-to-date spells file..

[Coriolis]

Think I got it figured out, at least the issue I was having.

You need to rename the P99 dsetup.dll to DSETUP.dll so that it actually overwrites the one in the everquest directory. Windows doesn't have this case sensitivity so will overwrite regardless, but linux will just toss both of them in there apparently. Since the server uses this dll as a hook for the spell file check, you have to make sure it's updated.

Hope that helps, good luck.

[dmorawski]

Originally Posted by Coriolis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You need to rename the P99 dsetup.dll to DSETUP.dll so that it actually overwrites the one in the everquest directory. Windows doesn't have this case sensitivity so will overwrite regardless, but linux will just toss both of them in there apparently. Since the server uses this dll as a hook for the spell file check, you have to make sure it's updated.

This was exactly my problem! Thanks so much, Coriolis & everyone for your help. I'm now running EQ in Linux! Whoa!