murlosad
April 23rd, 2007, 10:43 PM
How-to install Unreal Tournament 2003 in Feisty Fawn using the installer from disc 3.
After Days of searching the internets, I finally got UT2003 to install properly. Here's how:
Note: For the purposes of this how-to we will assume that you have 3d acceleration working properly.
glxinfo | grep direct should say direct rendering: Yes
Note: Just to be clear username = your username in any of the commands listed
Now, to the fun:
Step 1.
Copy linux_installer.sh from disc 3 to your harddrive (e.g. /home/username)
Easy way with this command:
cp /media/cdrom/linux_installer.sh /home/username
Then make it executable:
chmod a+x linux_installer.sh
Step 2.
Eject disc 3 from your system and insert disc 1
Step 3.
Tell the installer where to look for the cdrom (this step may or may not be necessary on your system, I couldn't get the installer to do anything without it).
export SETUP_CDROM=/media/cdrom
you may have to change the path to /media/cdrom0 or cdrom1, but this worked for me.
(source: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+UT2003)
Step 4.
Fix the glibc problem. (The installer from the cd wants glibc-2.1 which doesn't seem to be the correct version anymore, so this command essential tells it that you do have 2.1, and like magic, it works)
export SETUP_LIBC=glibc-2.1
(source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=262340&highlight=glibc-2.1)
Step 5.
Run the installer from the directory you saved it into (e.g. /home/username)
sh linux_installer.sh or sudo sh linux_installer.sh if you want to install the game somewhere you don't have write permissions. (e.g. /usr/local/games)
This should give you a license agreement, which of course you need to agree to. Then it will give you an opportunity to change the install directory but you can probably leave that alone.
The installer can take quite awhile to work, but at some point you will have to change the cd to disc 2 (which the installer calls disc 1) and disc 3 (which it calls disc 2).
Step 6.
Enter your cd-key twice. You want to enter it exactly as it is on the case, capital letters and all. (I had some trouble with this part, it kept telling me that the cd-keys didn't match)
You can manually add it to /usr/local/games/ut2003/System/cdkey (if you didn't change the default install dir) in the format AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD or even just in your username/.ut2003/System/cdkey to prevent that the CDkey is visible for all Users logged into this machine. (source: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+UT2003)
Step 7.
Play! you can run the game with ./ut2003 from your home directory, assuming you didn't tell the installer not to make a shortcut for you. (it does create on by default)
Hope this helps someone, if not, at least it will be available the next time I have to install ut2003 :)
//Bonus Packs can be obtained here: http://icculus.org/~ravage/ut2003/
After Days of searching the internets, I finally got UT2003 to install properly. Here's how:
Note: For the purposes of this how-to we will assume that you have 3d acceleration working properly.
glxinfo | grep direct should say direct rendering: Yes
Note: Just to be clear username = your username in any of the commands listed
Now, to the fun:
Step 1.
Copy linux_installer.sh from disc 3 to your harddrive (e.g. /home/username)
Easy way with this command:
cp /media/cdrom/linux_installer.sh /home/username
Then make it executable:
chmod a+x linux_installer.sh
Step 2.
Eject disc 3 from your system and insert disc 1
Step 3.
Tell the installer where to look for the cdrom (this step may or may not be necessary on your system, I couldn't get the installer to do anything without it).
export SETUP_CDROM=/media/cdrom
you may have to change the path to /media/cdrom0 or cdrom1, but this worked for me.
(source: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+UT2003)
Step 4.
Fix the glibc problem. (The installer from the cd wants glibc-2.1 which doesn't seem to be the correct version anymore, so this command essential tells it that you do have 2.1, and like magic, it works)
export SETUP_LIBC=glibc-2.1
(source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=262340&highlight=glibc-2.1)
Step 5.
Run the installer from the directory you saved it into (e.g. /home/username)
sh linux_installer.sh or sudo sh linux_installer.sh if you want to install the game somewhere you don't have write permissions. (e.g. /usr/local/games)
This should give you a license agreement, which of course you need to agree to. Then it will give you an opportunity to change the install directory but you can probably leave that alone.
The installer can take quite awhile to work, but at some point you will have to change the cd to disc 2 (which the installer calls disc 1) and disc 3 (which it calls disc 2).
Step 6.
Enter your cd-key twice. You want to enter it exactly as it is on the case, capital letters and all. (I had some trouble with this part, it kept telling me that the cd-keys didn't match)
You can manually add it to /usr/local/games/ut2003/System/cdkey (if you didn't change the default install dir) in the format AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD or even just in your username/.ut2003/System/cdkey to prevent that the CDkey is visible for all Users logged into this machine. (source: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+UT2003)
Step 7.
Play! you can run the game with ./ut2003 from your home directory, assuming you didn't tell the installer not to make a shortcut for you. (it does create on by default)
Hope this helps someone, if not, at least it will be available the next time I have to install ut2003 :)
//Bonus Packs can be obtained here: http://icculus.org/~ravage/ut2003/