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Probably not - depending on your linux setup. I use MD5 hashes for the password.

I usually have a separate set of mul files for cedserver so it doesn't conflict with RunUO or the UO Client. Also you can have several instances of cedserver running, each on their own port. The config file to load is determined from the name of the server executable. So if you make a copy of "cedserver.exe" to "cedserver2.exe", the copy will look for "cedserver2.xml". Therefore you can even have multiple servers in one directory. I will also (sometime ... ;-)) add a commandline parameter to set the config file so one doesn't have to rename the executable.

Something like that is on the ToDo list, as far as I know
Since I personally have RunUO and CentrED running on the same machine, I usually connect via ssh anyway, then shut down both, prepare the update, and restart both. That way I can also be sure, that nothing and no one interferes with the update process.

Either another cedserver instance is running or something else runs on port 2597.
ps ax | grep cedserver should help with the first case, netstat aon | grep 2597 should help with the second case.

Well, I guess that's good. The config file looks correct. Are you sure, the tiledata has exactly that name? Linux filesystems are usually case sensitive, and IIRC, the original file (shipped with UO) had some upper case letters.

I have a theory, but can you show me your config file (most likely cedserver.xml) just to be sure?

I attached a freshly compiled and packed version. It's not strictly 0.6.1 but the current "tip", but it should be nearly the same (feature-wise). Beware, it's built for i686 now (which essentially means Pentium 4 or later).

Have you tried extracting it using the commandline (I gave you)?

Yes, an older tiledata.mul should fix the issues. There are also other side effects apart from the wrong names. The tiledata contains other necessary information about tiles, like its height. So if CentrED can't correctly read it, some other things when building statics will go wrong. I didn't get my hands on one of the new tiledata.mul so far, so I have no idea what exactly changed. But apparently they added more data fields.

Well, beware that it's not a .tar but a .tar.gz (or in short .tgz). You can however try to rename it to .tar.gz, maybe that helps.

I'm really baffled what the hell I'm doing wrong with OpenGL that some graphics drivers freak out. Unfortunately I only have access to NVidia cards, which all seem to be pretty faul-tolerant (regarding OpenGL). But I still hope that some more experienced OpenGL coder will show up one day, look at my code, and see what's the problem ... ;-)

You are right, the newer UO Versions aren't supported by CentrED.

Regarding the beginners guide: I think in some other UO mapping related forums I already saw some guides, but I myself didn't write one. IMHO you should just jump in and play around

Extract it (tar xzf cedserver_linux_i386_0-6-1.tgz), then run it (./cedserver). :-)

You can see a list of known/recognized bugs on the official Bug Tracker:
http://redmine.aksdb.de/projects/centred/issues

You can also use this to report bugs. If you don't know how to handle it, just use this forum to describe the bug.

In any case, give as much detail as you can provide.

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You don't need a separate FPC installation if you use the Lazarus installers which come with a bundled FPC.
That said, you now probably use FPC 2.2.4 which is pretty outdated. I personally work with snapshot version of both, FPC and Lazarus, and they work pretty well. You can get a recent snapshot from here. In case you come "too late" (they are daily snapshots, so tomorrow that link will not be valid anymore), you can always grab the current snapshots here. Pick the one with the naming pattern "Lazarus-0.9.31-[...]-fpc-2.5.1-[...]-win32.exe".

With the recent versions, VirtualTreeView should work fine, although instead of trunk, you should try the 4.8 Branch instead: https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/components/virtualtreeview-new/branches/4.8/

Since I haven't compiled CentrED in some time, I'll check tomorrow if there are any conflicts. But in any way, I can (and want) only support recent Lazarus versions, since that's what I always work with.

(The soon-to-be-released Lazarus 0.9.30 with FPC 2.4.2 might work too, but I probably will not test it )