Installing Quake2 on Ubuntu...It won't run!

[jagibbs]

I'm trying to install Quake2 on Ubuntu 5.04 (debian based).

I'm following the "Linux Quake HOWTO" pretty much line for line and everything goes smoothly until I get to running the actual program using
./quake2

I get the error ./quake2: No such file or directory

but I can see it right there so I know it exists. I am in the correct directory and cannot get it to run either as root or otherwise. Also, my GL renderer is working properly.

DETAILS OF WHAT I DID:
1) Create the installation directory to be "/usr/local/games/quake2"
2) Copied the entire contents of the /Install/Data folder from my Quake2 cd into the installation directory
3) Downloaded the libc5 tar.gz linux quake file from idsoftware
4) I untarred the above linux binaries to my "/usr/local/games/quake2" directory as root
5) I created a "quake2.conf" file using:

su root
cd /usr/local/games/quake2
pwd > /etc/quake2.conf
chmod 644 /etc/quake2.conf

6) at this point when I run

cd /usr/local/games/quake2
./quake2

I get the error "./quake2: No such file or directory" but doing ls I can see the quake2 linux executable is there!

Any ideas I'd like to hear...thanks

[G-raf]

jagibbs,

I am having the same problem only I am trying to run Quake 1. Another user pointed me to Loki's page:

http://www.liflg.org

Appears there are some other installers there for Quake 2.

You could also try adding your quake2 directory to your path as such:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/games/quake2

Although this didn't work for me...logging out and back in again should remove the PATH append.

If you come up with anything let me know, I will do likewise.

Good Luck!

[mollukka]

I installed Quake 2 with Loki installer ( here ), and got it working easily though I had some problems with GL, but now it works too.

With Quake 1 I used Loki installer too ( here ) and it worked like a charm.

If nothing else works, try these. I can post more info how I got them working once I get back to my computer.