Quake on Linux

[darkhacker902]

I have the Original Quake for windows, when i try and open it with Wine in ubuntu, I get the loading screen, but at the bottom in my taskbar it says joequake error. and it never loads :(

How do I install it properly?

[jrusso2]

Instead of running the Original Quake in WINE, its better to run it natively in Linux.

I have never run the original quake I can't find the CD but Quake 2 runs quite well in Linux.

Here is a How To on running it natively.

http://www.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO.html

[darkhacker902]

Alright well since i heard about running it natively, I just did sudo aptitude install quake2

and its installed


but when I run it....I get this:


***** WARNING *****

The networking part of Quake II (especially the server part) contains
several unfixed security issues. Therefore, Quake II should not be
used over untrusted networks (like the internet). The version
included in Debian is intended only for local play.

See for an possibly non-exhaustive list of issues:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html
http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/
http://bugs.debian.org/280573

*******************

Do you understand the security implications of continuing?
y
QuakeIIForge 0.3
using /home/ryan/.quake2/baseq2/ for writing
couldn't exec default.cfg
execing config.cfg
Console initialized.

------- sound initialization -------
loading oss sound output driver, ok
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
SNDDMA_Init: Could not open /dev/dsp.
------- Loading ref_softx.so -------
LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so")
No joysticks found
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx

[jrusso2]

Do you have the quake 2 CD cause there is a folder you need to copy.

[darkhacker902]

I have quake 1 in a folder on my desktop.

[cjl2301]

Check out post #7 on this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311391&highlight=quake

It will tell you how to get quake running using the Darkplaces engine. It's very easy to setup (I just did myself) and I think you will be quite pleased with the results - I know I was.