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Installing Quake III On Ubuntu

This is an easy way to install quake 3 on ubnutu

First open a terminal and type
mkdir -p /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
This is to make the directories that we are going to use

Now put the cd in the drive and then go and browse it's files until you find a file called pak0.pk3 it should be in Quake3/baseq3/. Then copy it to /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/
so if you copied the 400+meg file to the desktop you would then do this command to move it to the quake directory
sudo mv Desktop/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3

Now we need to get and install point release
Right click this link and hit save as
linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run (about 28megs last time i checked)

Then if you downloaded it to your desktop like most people do then run this command to move it
sudo mv Desktop/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run /usr/local/games/quake3

Once you've moved it to the place lets do the install
sh /usr/local/games/quake3/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
You have to agree to the terms a couple of time, and then you can select yes for all answers and then install it.

And now your done, you can now go into the terminal and start quake 3 with the command
sudo quake3