How to Install Piqueserver on OpenBSD

Piqueserver is a popular open-source game server written in Python. If you're running OpenBSD and want to install Piqueserver, you're in luck – it's a relatively straightforward process.

Prerequisites

Before we start, you'll need to ensure that your OpenBSD system has the following packages installed:

• python3
• py3-pip
• git

You can install these packages using the pkg_add command:

$ doas pkg_add python3 py3-pip git

Step 1: Clone the Piqueserver repository

The first step is to clone the Piqueserver repository from GitHub. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/piqueserver/piqueserver.git

This will clone the entire Piqueserver repository to your local machine.

Step 2: Install dependencies

Piqueserver has several dependencies that need to be installed before it can be run. To install these dependencies, we'll use pip3. Navigate to the Piqueserver directory and run the following command:

$ cd piqueserver
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

This will download and install all the dependencies necessary to run Piqueserver.

Step 3: Configure Piqueserver

Piqueserver has a configuration file that you can edit to customize various aspects of the server, such as the port number and admin password. Copy the default configuration file to a new file called config.cfg:

$ cp example-config.cfg config.cfg

You can then edit the config.cfg file to your liking. For example, you might want to change the port number to listen on:

[server]
port = 32887

Step 4: Run Piqueserver

Once you've configured Piqueserver, you can start it up by running the following command:

$ ./run.py

This will start the server, which will listen for incoming connections on the port you specified.

Congratulations – you've successfully installed Piqueserver on OpenBSD! You can now connect to your server using a Cube 2: Sauerbraten client.