Quake 2 installation

[pardesi]

i recently started using ubuntu...int the synaptic device manager i saw Quake 2 i then marked it for installation...and everything downloaded but couldn't know how to install it because i couldn't get the icon...
well is it a full or demo version

[hikaricore]

I believe it just installs the linux binary for the full version of the game and that you'll need the data files from an actual copy of quake2 to play.

[pardesi]

oh i didn't now that..:(:(

[aoanla]

oh i didn't now that..:(:(

It does tell you that in Synaptic!

I quote from the package information:

This package contains no data files. You will need to either install the
commercial data from the Quake II CD-ROM with the ``quake2-data'' package,
or install some free data files.

[weblordpepe]

Yeah just as a side note, you'll find that with heaps of games in Linux. They'll basically be a linux version of the game engine.

Same thing with Doom, and other games like Space Quest and stuff. You'll need a copy of the game (or shareware etc) but the thing in the package manager will be a replacement for say doom.exe.

[whistlerspa]

How do you use the Quake2-data package - it has no icon that I can find?