running quake3+teamarena with .pak files in user directory

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

i installed ioquake3 and teamarena, and it works perfectly, but the .pak files (baseq3 and missionpack) are in the /usr/share/games/quake3
i would like to have them in my user (~/.q3a) because i dont like the idea of having game data files manually put somewhere in the non-home directory

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

somehow i felt that somewhere in the first few answers at least one will be a "this ianswer will not solve your problem but why dont you like that idea" -type (no offense, its just amusing sometimes

).
idea:
-~/.q3a is one of the locations where quake3 searches for pak files
-one user computer, so no need to have the data files accessible by everyone
-while i left pretty much enough space on / to be able to install almost everything from portage, having this ~800 mbyte in the home directory will save up space and i will not forget about it and leave it taking up space in the machine, unused after an install

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

Wrong.

The bare minimum is 1 partition for everything. Works fine.

For backups, use an external hard drive. And don't forget all the changes that you made outside of $HOME, which need backing up also.

None of this is Gentoo-specific. It's just sensible use of Linux.

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

ok.
understood.

but i still want to run quake3 with the pak files in my home directory

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

No-one's stopping you. If you want help, show an error message.

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

this is the error:
Sys_Error: recursive error after: User Interface is version 3, expected 6

when i run the program, it switches to fullscreen, the right before the id intro it dies.

luismw · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 66

I had a the same problem and I solved it by simply creating a symlink in /usr/share/.... to the real location of the .pak files. Not too pretty, but it works.

printf · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 48

Raptor85 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208

This is a patch conflict, you have two different versions of the game data files installed at once. (ones pulled in by gentoo from the patch, and older ones from your cd you copied into the home dir). Consolidating the data files into a single set at the same version will fix it.