Installing Quake III

[pockets23]

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Hi, I've downloaded linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh from the id software site.
From Konsole I typed ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
Another screen came up with the message 'Verifying archive integrity' then disappeared.
What do I do????

[Game master pro]

Did you run it as root?

[pockets23]

Yep. What should I be seeing?
'SU' to run as root right?

[pockets23]

I'm only running SUSE a couple of days, these sh files are shell files is it?
What do they do? Is that like an executable in Windows?

[Game master pro]

You use
su -
to run it as root, are you sure there are only 1 .sh file? it doesn't seem right to me, where did you get it from?

[farslayer]

Quake 3 on Linux,
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/q3a/


This site (run by Id Software I believe) details installing Quake 3 on Linux what files you need to do so, where to get them, and also coverts some proplems you may run into. .

Actually the name of the file you want to Install the full version Quake 3 On linux is: linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run which you can download from Id Softwares' ftp.: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/ Installing hte full version of Quake 3 on Linux requires you to have a original Game CD ecause you will need the pak files from the CD.



happy fraggin !!

[pockets23]

Hi, it's just the demo I want to download to try out. Downloaded it from the link on the id software site http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quak...e_section=demo

That's the same file as shown on that ftp link you gave me farslayer. (The one that's not the full version)

[pockets23]

Eh.... I'm all a bit new at this but if .sh is a shell file that executes and .gz is a zip file then the .sh bit is meant to unzip the file?
So... is it possible to just ignore the .sh and unzip manually?

[techieMoe]

Eh.... I'm all a bit new at this but if .sh is a shell file that executes and .gz is a zip file then the .sh bit is meant to unzip the file?
So... is it possible to just ignore the .sh and unzip manually?

No. An .sh file is a shell script that runs a series of commands on your computer, one of which (in this case) happens to be an unzip command. No two shell scripts are identical, and not all shell scripts will run an unzip command. For example, this is a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
echo Hello World

All it does is display "Hello World". The SH file for the Quake installer does a lot more than just unzip a file, therefore trying to install it manually by just unzipping it isn't going to work.

[pockets23]

Ahhh...
So the solution is???