1                      Quake III Arena
2                   Quake III: Team Arena
3                 Installation instructions
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5
6What you need:
7
8- retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows or linux
9- optionally, retail CD-ROM of Quake III: Team Arena
10- a computer running linux (kernel >= 2.2 glibc >= 2.1)
11- running the client requires X11 and 3D hardware acceleration with OpenGL
12
13Installation:
14
15If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for linux:
16- install Quake III Arena from the CD-ROM
17- run the Point Release installer
18(to buy Quake III Arena for linux online, try http://www.tuxgames.com/)
19
20If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows:
21- run the Point Release installer first
22- now you need to copy the main pak files from the CD-ROM
23  or from your win32 partition. Namely, you need to copy baseq3/pak0.pk3
24  and for Team Arena, missionpack/pak0.pk3
25  see below for more instructions on how to copy the files:
26
27WARNING: Those instructions are provided as a reference,
28depending on your distribution the CD-ROM might not have the same
29mount point. Please refer to your linux documentation for additional
30information.
31
32- open a root shell and cd to the default installation path:
33  cd /usr/local/games/quake3
34- mount the Quake III Arena CD-ROM and install the game content
35  cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
36- optionally, mount the Quake III: Team Arena CD-ROM
37  cp /mnt/cdrom/Setup/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack
38
39NOTES:
40- If you are running Quake III Arena and Quake III: Team Arena on a
41  Windows partition, you can save some space by symlinking the game
42  assets to their windows installation:
43  ln -s /win/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3
44  ln -s /win/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3
45  (Windows partition is mounted as /win and Quake III Arena installation is C:\quake3)
46
47Getting Help:
48
49- consult the FAQ in Help/Q3A_FAQ.html
50- head over to the Quake3World forums http://www.quake3world.com/forums
51- consult the list of known issues and tips at
52  http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux
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