Installation

[Bisa]

I'm thinking of enhancing the installation process by using the freely provided headless tar package.

Options like "clean install" or "force update latest version" spring to mind, but without a readily accessible link to the "latest" version I'm not going to mess around with this - if you're watching this, feel free to show some love in https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22210 to support this.

[poettler-ric]

Hi,

today I've been working on a spec file to create a Factorio headless server rpm package (works on F23, will test it on CentOS 7 as soon as I have time). Maybe this could be an option for your installation issues? It doesn't automatically fetch/package the latest version, tough.

Kind regards

[Bisa]

Sure sounds interesting @poettler-ric =)

[poettler-ric]

Sorry, I completely forgot the link: https://github.com/poettler-ric/fedora-spec/tree/master/factorio-server

[kwlockwo]

Not sure if it is relavent here, or may be changing, but the ./factorio install "factorio.tar.gz" currently gives an error which doesn't make much sense. The error is:

Could not find factorio config file: /opt/factorio/config/config.ini If this is the first time you run this script; You might need to generate the config.ini by running: sudo -u factorio /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server factorio-init-save

But if you are trying to install, how would you actually run this? Anyway I just added an if to this check:

if ! [ $1 == install ]; then if [ -z "${FCONF}" ]; then echo "FCONF config missing! Add it to your config file" exit 1 fi if ! [ -e ${FCONF} ]; then echo "Could not find factorio config file: ${FCONF}" echo "If this is the first time you run this script; You might need to generate the config.ini" echo "by running: sudo -u $USERNAME ${BINARY} --start-server ${SAVE_NAME}" exit 1 fi fi

Maybe doesn't need to include the check if the FCONF variable exists and mybe this is valid for other options too.

Excellent script however.

[Bisa]

I'll be revisiting the install section to correct this eventually, at the moment I'm still waiting for something like this tho https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22210

[Bisa]

Introducing the latest headless download option in #105 I've opted for keeping it at that for now. If you want to "force" a reinstall or update, simply run rm -rf /path/to/factorio && factorio install