1 Quake III Arena 2 Quake III: Team Arena 3 Installation instructions 4 ------ 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 53