How to obtain the FreeBSD minetest-server executable?

[PJ568]

I have a FreeBSD server without root access, sudo privileges, or Docker.
I attempted to extract

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minetest_game-5.8.0.20241016.pkg

, but it doesn’t seem to include the executable file.
How can I obtain a compiled executable of

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minetest-server

to run on this server?

Thanks in advance,
PJ568.

[HubTou]

Hello,

For general situations, I made a tutorial about Luanti server installation on FreeBSD.

For your specific, rootless, case, you can:

• follow the Luanti general instructions for manual installation.
• fetch and unpack the source code:

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  fetch https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/refs/tags/5.10.0.tar.gz
  tar vxzf 5.10.0.tar.gz
  cd minetest-5.10.0
  

• Starts compiling (this will fail until you get all the third parties dependencies):

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  cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE
  make -j$(nproc)
  

• Get inspiration from the FreeBSD port in /usr/ports/games/luanti on how to solve the multiple dependencies.

This will be quite painful until you install everything required, whereas as root you just do:

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pkg install luanti

Good luck!