Quake install..HELP, not much hair left!

[workingitout]

I'm trying to install Quake & Quakeworld. I've gone thru the readme files, followed the HOWTO's, & still no luck. When I try to run it, I get "no such file or directory". I installed to /usr/local/games/quake like it said, & when I change to that directory & ls, it shows the files in the list. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tracy

[TheGimp]

Are you using the official id binaries? They're built against libc5. The best thing to do is download quake source code and compile it. Heres a few good sites

http://mfcn.ilo.de/glxquake/ the source builds a software client too (squake)

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/quake/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/darkplaces very nice looking glquake client - also the only way to play the nehahra mod in Linux

http://www.quakeforge.net/

http://rc.bke.hu/surmoclient/

[lokival]

hi there,

I've had the same problem getting quake to run, eventually tried downloading the source and it complies just fine, but segfaults on startup!

I'm using Mandrake 8.1. I've tried linking against the libc5 libs that come with Mandrake but no luck, complies just fine then segfaults on startup.

any help would be greatly appriciated.

Peace,

Gerard.

[ScRapZ_1]

If you're trying to run GLQuake, I have only had success with one binary. Its quite simply a single executable file, but you ofcourse need the pak files. Just put this file (http://zombix.homelinux.org/~scrapz/files/quake.gz) in the quake root dir, gunzip it, then run it. Voila!

TTFN,
Scrapz :p

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by workingitout
I'm trying to install Quake & Quakeworld. I've gone thru the readme files, followed the HOWTO's, & still no luck. When I try to run it, I get "no such file or directory". I installed to /usr/local/games/quake like it said, & when I change to that directory & ls, it shows the files in the list. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tracy My guess is that it's an issue with your PATH environment variable. Does ./quake (i.e. putting ./ in front of the executable's name, when you're in the proper directory) work?

[lokival]

Yes it was glquake and your binary does actually work, thanks much.

Peace,

Gerard.

[ScRapZ_1]

Youre more than welcome ;)

TTFN,
Scrapz :p

[workingitout]

But, I can't get the file to gunzip that ScrapZ_1 posted the link to!! Keeps telling me it isn't the proper format. ScrapZ_1, can you email it to me?
Sorry I haven't replied sooner, I had a little family vacation to Ocean City to tend to.

Thanks,
Tracy

[Icarus]

I feel your pain...I picked up Quake3 last week and needed to get the point release so I could play online...
First I tried from FilePlant...
Never use FilePlanet, the Suck Monkeys Arses!!
same problem you had, I figure there was something really wrong with it because when I cat it, it looked like a shell script...so I tried making it executable, no good...it's compressed!

So after trying about 10 different download locations I found one that worked I think it was from 3dgames or downloads or something...I can't remember

Ahhh...found it!
3ddownloads (http://www.3ddownloads.com/index.php3?directory=/linuxgames/)