Quake 3 comes with Mageia?

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Quake 3 comes with Mageia?

Postby duder » Jan 7th, '14, 17:57

I read somewhere that Quake 3 comes with Mageia? That would be awesome!
Its always a fight to get it installed and working. For some reason I love the original Quake and Quake 3.
Has anyone been able to play the original Quake on Mageia?
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Re: Quake 3 comes with Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 7th, '14, 19:58

Yes and no ;)

The ioquake3 (and also quake2) packages are in the repositories. That's an opensource port of the Quake 3 Arena engine.
You still need the ressource files from the original game as those are proprietary and cannot be freely distributed.
What is provided is a template for autodownloader so latest Quake3 updates can be conveniently dowloaded.

See:
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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ urpmq -i ioquake3
Name        : ioquake3
Version     : 1.36
Release     : 11.svn2102.mga3
Group       : Games/Shooter
Size        : 3264488                      Architecture: x86_64
Source RPM  : ioquake3-1.36-11.svn2102.mga3.src.rpm
URL         : http://ioquake3.org/
Summary     : Quake 3 Arena engine (ioquake3 version)
Description :
This package contains the enhanced opensource ioquake3 version of the Quake 3
Arena engine. This engine can be used to play a number of games based on this
engine, below is an (incomplete list):

* OpenArena, Free, Open Source Quake3 like game, recommended!
  (packagename: openarena)

* Urban Terror, gratis, but not Open Source FPS best be described as a
  Hollywood tactical shooter, a downloader and installer including an
  application menu entry is available in the urbanterror package.

* World of Padman, gratis, but not Open Source Comic FPS, a downloader and
  installer including an application menu entry is available in the
  worldofpadman package.

* Smokin' Guns, gratis, but not Open Source FPS, a semi-realistic simulation of
  the "Old West's" great atmosphere, a downloader and installer including an
  application menu entry is available in the smokinguns package.

* Quake3 Arena, the original! A downloader and installer for the gratis, but
  not Open Source demo, including an application menu entry is available in
  the quake3-demo package.

  If you own a copy of quake 3, you will need to copy pak0.pk3 from the
  original CD-ROM and your q3key to /usr/share/quake3/baseq3 or ~/.q3a/baseq3.
  Also copy the pak?.pk3 files from the original 1.32 Quake 3 Arena point
  release there if you have them available or run quake3-update to download
  them for you.


And this is the error message when you try to run ioquake3 without the game ressources installed:
[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ ioquake3
ioq3 1.36 linux-x86_64 Jan 9 2013
Have SSE support
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/doktor5000/.q3a/baseq3
/usr/share/ioquake3/baseq3

----------------------
0 files in pk3 files
"pak0.pk3" is missing. Please copy it from your legitimate Q3 CDROM
. Point Release files are missing. Please re-install the 1.32 point release. Also check that your ioq3 executable is in the correct place and that every file in the "baseq3" directory is present and readable
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Re: Quake 3 comes with Mageia?

Postby duder » Jan 8th, '14, 08:14

I have the CD so no problem. I also like Star Trek Elite forces which also uses the Quake 3 engine.
As long as it works I don't care. I installed from CD on Ubuntu real easy. I was hoping this was packaged with the OS, but thats fine I
can fiddle my way through it.
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Re: Quake 3 comes with Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 8th, '14, 22:10

duder wrote:I was hoping this was packaged with the OS

Well, we can only package what's freely distributable, and that game content is not :/
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