Trouble running Quake3

mihochan · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 2:08 am Post subject: Trouble running Quake3

I'm trying to run quake after installing through portage, but I get the following error.

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

Get your Q3 CD. Put it in drive, mount it. mkdir /usr/local/games/quake3

Copy the baseq3 dir from your CD to /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3

Obtain linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run and fun script as root. Point the script to /usr/local/games/quake3. Play quake. Place your old autoexec.cfg and q3config.cfg from Windows in ~/.q3a/baseq3 to save you reconfiguring everything again. If you're like me, your config is very tweaked. Don't forget to emerge qstat and xqf so you won't miss gamespy at all.
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mihochan · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 12:30 pm Post subject:

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

Wrong, the ebuild works fine, you just sometimes have to open your eyes :)

Read what the ebuild printed after finishing, which tells you to put the pak0.pk3 from your quake3 cd or your windows quake3 installation into /opt/quake3/baseq3 and everything works fine. Or if you have a windows quake installation just symlink the pak0.pk3.

Ellidi · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. but the demo should run fine if pak0.pak isn't in baseq3/ .. think this is not due to the lack of pak0.pak :)
then again.. what do I know... I'm just a newbie :)
[edited: some typo's:)]
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DooBeDooBeDo · Apprentice Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK

The demo of Q3 won't work with the latest point release, which is installed by emerging quake3. To play the demo you need to get it from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh and install it separately. It contains it's own pak0.pk3.

Imar · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 21

Did you solve this problem?
If you solved it, please contact me on jabber (imar@jabber.kicks-ass.org) or icq (3506981)
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mihochan · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 3:31 am Post subject:

I finally got round to downloading the quake demo and
copied the file as suggested.

Things still don't work for me and the error message is basically the same
although it does find the pak0 file.

Tom
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