Happy after trying Urban Terror, a quake3 total transformati

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

when I was part of a clan, they all wanted to use roger wilco but I told them flat out that I cannot and will not run that. ICQ/AIM/Yahoo Messenger/Jabber/IRC, god.. how many more different forms of communication do you really need?

taskara · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 1:37 pm Post subject:

I know I'm gonna sound like an idiot, but how the hell do you run quake3 with a mod ? I've setup urban terror to go, but guess I need a command to tell quake3 to load the mod ... half life is easy

I'm sure q3 is too

I don't play quake3 at all, but thought I'd try this mod out

BTW your ebuild script defaults to /opt/quake3, but I bought the linux version of quake3 ages ago, and it installs to /usr/local/games/quake3/ by default - no hassle, I just edited the ebuild script - but others might like to know.

taskara · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject:

maybe I just join a server that runs it and it works it out.. I'll give that a go

taskara · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 2:23 pm Post subject:

that didn't work...

anyone, help a poor ol' fool ?

Tuxisuau · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:36 pm Post subject:

Yes, my ebuild defaults there. But that's only because quake3 ebuild defaults there too, and my ebuild depends on it.
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Tharkun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 106

Ah an urban terror ebuild hehe :)

The quake3 ebuild has to install to /opt. It's gentoo policy that packages which only offer binaries go into /opt, so I put it there (I made the q3 ebuild). /usr/local is out of option as well as it is for what the name suggests, for local installations the admin makes himself, no distribution package is allowed to install to /usr/local (see the FHS).

taskara · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 10:38 pm Post subject:

yeah that's fine - just thought others might like to know

but the reason I posted was cause I don't know how to get a game of UT going - no-one seems to have mentioned that..

could someone tell me how to get quake3 to use the mod ? - DYING to play!!

ta

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Soul-Crusher

taskara · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 9:29 am Post subject:

ok I'll have a look

thanks

taskara · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 10:17 am Post subject:

I'm having no luck with this whole quake3 thing

I install quake3 from my linux version cd to /opt/quake3 (bin folder /usr/local/bin)

I can run it no problems.

after I emerge quake3 (the update) I can't run quake3 anymore - it says permission denied, even with everyone read AND write access.

So once again I am foiled in my attemp to play friggin urban terror.

can someone tell my where I stuffed it all up ? or how to get it going

much, much appreciated!

taskara · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 10:27 am Post subject:

seems it's the permissions from the ebuild that stuffed it.

runs as root fine

I'll fiddle with them.

the god damn urban terror had better be there

Tuxisuau · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 4:05 pm Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 5:00 am Post subject:

well atm the ebuild stops quake3 from working..
it's a permissions error.. haven't been able to fix it yet..

any ideas ?

TheCoop · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 7:17 am Post subject:

whats the command line option for quake3 to open running the urban terror mod?
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Tuxisuau · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 10:15 am Post subject:

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taskara · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 12:14 pm Post subject:

sorry - your ebuild works fine - it's the quake3 update that causes the permissions error.

anyone have any ideas why ? perhaps the dude who wrote the script ?

ta

still waiting to play!!!

taskara · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 12:26 pm Post subject:

it's all good

changed the permissions

added myself to the games group

it's all sweet.. going to play now!!!

thanks

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

Well I wrote the original ebuild for quake3 and there were some permission problems but that should have been fixed by now but I don't really know if somebody changed the ebuild again ...

Have you just added yourself to the games group and then it started working ? If that's the case I must say, RTFM or better read the f* notice the ebuild prints out :) I clearly state that users have to be in the games group. (though at least in early versions of the ebuild that I have here the permissions grant everyone the right to play q3).

If you say you changed the permissions then what were the permissions like before you changed them and to what did you change them ?

Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

Just thought I'd mention that you can also install mods, put custom cfg files etc in your ~/.q3a drectory. Quake3 automatically looks there for the stuff if it exists and it keeps the rest of the filesystem clean.

Either way

Cheers!
Arker.

taskara · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 9:30 pm Post subject:

I can do it again, but I added myself to the games group, changed the permissions to read write everyone, and re-logged in.

still didn't work

tried the next day it was ok

so .. not sure what it was - but you're right, I shoulda read the f'in notice in the ebuild

Captain_Entropy · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 29

i dont really see the necessity (other than ultra-convienence) of emerging quake 3. you can just download the latest linux patch, install it, then copy the pak0.pk3 file on the cd into /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3. thats what i did and it worked fine. Also, isn't installing mods just unzipping them into a mod directory, i dont think you have to do anything to them.

P.S. im running urban terror 2.4 fine, as well as counterstrike (unfortunately you cant play in secure servers).
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Tuxisuau · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 3:47 am Post subject: Identifying Gentoo users

I suggest adding the substring "Gentoo" into xqf's player highlight feature, and adding "Gentoo" somewhere in your Urban Terror nickname.

Then Gentoo players would be able to identify between themselves, and to play together against windows losers ;)
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