Installing the Server Software 

1. Make a copy of your current UNIX installation first, to ensure you have a backup. 

Rename your current Palace directory, and install the new server into a directory 

with your old Palace directory name. Do *not* start the UNIX Palace server yet.

2. Move the new UNIX Palace server s 

pserver.prefs 

and 

pserver.pat

 files out of 

the new Palace server s 

installdirectory/palace/psdata

 directory. Copy your 

old 

pserver.dat

 and

 pserver.prp

 files to that location (

installdirectory/

palace/psdata

 directory.).

3. Review your

 pserver.conf

 file for accuracy if you don t use some of the default 

settings. Replacing the new 

pserver.conf

 file with your old one is not 

recommended since some upgrades do add new fields that would not be in your 

old 

pserver.conf.

4. Copy your old media into 

installdirectory/palace/media

.

5. Copy any Java avatars you customized from your old avatars directory to 

installdirectory/palace/avatars

.

6. Start your new Palace server. Your new 

pserver.prefs 

and 

pserver.pat 

files are 

created automatically from your current settings.

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To install the UNIX server software

After you download your files to install, do the following:

1. Uncompress the Palace Source Files. The Palace files are distributed in 

tar.gz 

format. The first step therefore is to uncompress the tar image file by running 

gunzip

:

% gunzip filename

NOTE   

filename

 differs from platform to platform. The general format of 

is: 

server version cpu vendor OS.tar.gz. 

For example, 

pserver 4.4.1 iAPX32 linux.tar.gz

Gzip/gunzip

 is the standard compression software used for distributing UNIX 

software on the Internet. If you don t already have it, you can download source 

code from 

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ 

or any of the GNU mirror sites. 

Precompiled versions are available from a number of places, including: 

URL:ftp:/

/ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu/

.

2. Extract the Palace Files. The preceding step produces a single tar file roughly three 

megabytes in size. To extract the Palace files from this file, use the 

tar  xf 

command. For example:

% tar  xf pserver 4.4.1 iAPX32 linux.tar

3. Run the Installation Script. The files obtained from the previous step will include 

a script called 

install

. This script, which varies slightly from UNIX to UNIX, 

installs the Palace binaries, scripts and multimedia assets on your computer:

% ./install

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