Quake III Arena Quake III: Team Arena Installation instructions ------ What you need: - retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows or linux - optionally, retail CD-ROM of Quake III: Team Arena - a computer running linux (kernel >= 2.2 glibc >= 2.1) - running the client requires X11 and 3D hardware acceleration with OpenGL Installation: If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for linux: - install Quake III Arena from the CD-ROM - run the Point Release installer (to buy Quake III Arena for linux online, try http://www.tuxgames.com/) If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows: - run the Point Release installer first - now you need to copy the main pak files from the CD-ROM or from your win32 partition. Namely, you need to copy baseq3/pak0.pk3 and for Team Arena, missionpack/pak0.pk3 see below for more instructions on how to copy the files: WARNING: Those instructions are provided as a reference, depending on your distribution the CD-ROM might not have the same mount point. Please refer to your linux documentation for additional information. - open a root shell and cd to the default installation path: cd /usr/local/games/quake3 - mount the Quake III Arena CD-ROM and install the game content cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3 - optionally, mount the Quake III: Team Arena CD-ROM cp /mnt/cdrom/Setup/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack NOTES: - If you are running Quake III Arena and Quake III: Team Arena on a Windows partition, you can save some space by symlinking the game assets to their windows installation: ln -s /win/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 ln -s /win/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3 (Windows partition is mounted as /win and Quake III Arena installation is C:\quake3) Getting Help: - consult the FAQ in Help/Q3A_FAQ.html - head over to the Quake3World forums http://www.quake3world.com/forums - consult the list of known issues and tips at http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux