Quake 3

lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

This may be an extremely dumb quesition but I just can't seem to figure it out. I have recently emerged quake3 and I dont' know what to do next. Is there a page that gives instructiosn on how to get quake 3 running? Tha tmight contan any information I am missing.....any help or such links would be great

Zaxon · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 4:03 am Post subject:

Basically you just emerged the quake 3 point release, the only other thing you have to do is....you need a copy of quake 3 and you take pak0.pk3 file and copy it to your /opt/quake3/baseq directory
then it should be rdy to go. oh and we need a new ebuild for quake3 for the latest point rlz...plx

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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

After I have done that what do I type to run the program?

Zaxon · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 4:08 am Post subject:

I am not sure, but just open up a console and type quake3. Tell me if it works. Haven't played q3 on linux yet.
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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

it's like a script...gotta type ./quake3 in the directory

kemical · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:19 am Post subject:

or type /opt/quake3/quake3

for mods type /opt/quake3/quake3 +set fs_game osp

/opt/quake3/quake3 +set fs_game threewave

etc

or just use wine and install ase, but thats totally different topic

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Tharkun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 106

First of all, read what the ebuild prints out after it emerged. It tells you to copy or symlink the pak0.pk3!

zypher · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:31 pm Post subject:

It's no prob to run the new point release without an ebuild.
It comes with a nice installer.
And the ase-topic IS a different story so just feel free to try xqf

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Tharkun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 106

Its no prob to run the 1.31 either so ... many programs are ./configure; make; make install; too so whats the point ? Just because its easy I don't need to manage my files with portage ?

lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

If I decide to use Acitivisions isntaller for quake3 1.32 will that cause any problems later down the road with portage, or will there be anything special I need to configure later?

elzbal · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 6:46 am Post subject:

No problems at all. You just won't be able to use Portage to upgrade later.

Given the decent quality of the installer/upgrader, I don't think that is a big deal. I myself have never used Portage to install Quake3, and I don't think it could be any easier.

Anyone else want to give the opposing opinion?

Tharkun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 106

If you don't want to use portage for managing the quake installation that's absolutely fine with me!

What I am opposing is your reason for doing so. It's easy to do a lot of things without portage so why use it at all for those?

My argument is simply that I want to manage all the programs I install with portage. It's like using checkinstall or something on slack...

elzbal · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 4:55 pm Post subject:

Tharkun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 106

Well I don't own a loki game, I just dl the pr and symlink my pak0.pk3 from the windows installation and wanted to manage it all with portage so I made the ebuilds and submitted them so others could do so too. Thats how quake came into portage :)