Linux Mint 19.1 + Wine Staging 4.4

[Arcadius]

Hey guys I want to start off saying im not that great with linux yet, so i apologize if this is easy, but i did check guides on the website, forum, and wiki, and read the before you make a post topics,utilized a search engine and did check tech forum history with ctrl+f linux for 10 pages, and saw no relating answer.

My proglem revolves around the server list populating with the UDP issue. i have tried probably 20 times in a row and gotten nothing. sometimes a partial list.
I've never used make before, but i did manage to download middlemand, extract it, nav to it in CLI and type make, and it's successful. I can't run the bin file though. I tried double clicking it, it doesnt know what to do with it. i have tried chmod +x, a+x, u+x, none worked. no indication its running.

Also, does it need run every time i run the game?

Thank you.

[loramin]

You need to run it every time. What I do is add the following line to my .bash_profile:

/home/me/bin/p99-login-middlemand &

(I keep the program inside a "bin" folder in my home folder; obviously you'll need to adjust the above path for to point to wherever you're keeping it.)

That way it will start up automatically and you'll never have to even remember that it's there.

As for making it work, if you do it the way I suggested (or run it at the command line instead of in the GUI) it should work (hopefully).

[Arcadius]

Ok, I can add it to my game start bash script, and i added the bin folder ($PATH:/home/me/Downloads/p99-login-middlemand-master/bin) to my .bashrc.

But the problem i'm not solving is p99-login-middlemand being read by mint. When I double click it it tells me unknown file type & choose a program, when i right click properties it's type is Unknown (application/x-sharedlib). There is no file type suffix on the file name. In CLI when I cd to the bin folder and type the file name as ls shows it, It returns a command not found.

[nyclin]

$ echo "/home/me/Downloads/p99-login-middlemand-master/bin/p99-login-middlemand 2>&1" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ . ~/.bash_profile

then run wine/eq however

if bash is saying "command not found" on something in your current directory, it isn't part of your $PATH and you can exec it by running ./command if its chmod +x for you. if you update your $PATH in .bashrc you have to re-source .bashrc or open a new shell for the path to get updated, as .bashrc is just a script that gets run whenever you open a new login shell

[Arcadius]

typed in first command OK, 2nd one returned a no such file or directory.

did a chmod +x on p99-login-middlemand, and then tried just typing the file name which returned command not found, and tried forcing it with ./command which returned ./command: no such file or directory.

[Arcadius]

I have been unable to get the server list to populate *at all* for the last few days. Anyone have any other advice for what i'm missing/doing wrong? I feel like I've hit a wall here and not finding any solution.

TY loramin and nyclin for the help you have given so far.

[loramin]

You could try getting a VPN. That has helped me.