Question about UT2004

[the_purulent]

I am thinking about buying a copy of this game today, and I heard there is a native installer for linux.
Is this something packaged on teh cd or something I can pull from the repo's or what? Is there perhaps a guide to installing the game somewhere that I can use in Breezy / Gnome.

Thanks in Advance!

[KingBahamut]

its an Shell script that Loki wrote from what I remember. Itll run in Hoary no problem (and breezy I suspect as well), My install ran pretty smooth with some minor tweaking afterwards.

[Murgle]

there is an install script on the forst disk of ut2k4, there is also one on ut2k3 but that is on the last disk I think.

[seethru]

what KB said, and yes it's right on the cd/dvd.

[the_purulent]

Awesome.
Thanks guys! Going to the Store now. :)

[DariusTriplet]

It's no problem to install; just don't make the same two mistakes I did:

-Make sure you install as root
-Make sure you have two terminals open; one running the script and one for umounting the CDs.

As for updating it, I -think- you'll need a Loki installer.

[Harleen]

-Make sure you have two terminals open; one running the script and one for umounting the CDs.

Or take the DVD version. :cool:

As for updating it, I -think- you'll need a Loki installer.

No, the patch is a simple archive that just needs to be copied over your UT installation.
You may get that patch here: http://www.beyondunreal.com/main/ut2004/ut2004essential.php

[bionnaki]

what directory do you extract that to?

[Harleen]

Into the directory, you installed UT2004 to. By default, it's /usr/local/games/ut2004.

[bionnaki]

guess that makes sense.
thanks ;)

[the_purulent]

Rats, teh store didn't have any copies left lol
Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow.

[zelah]

newegg.com has it for $9.99 (cd version)

i saw the dvd version for like 40 a few days ago

[reub2000]

-Make sure you have two terminals open; one running the script and one for umounting the CDs.You should use ivman to automaticly mount and unmount cds.

Also make sure to run the installer from a directory outside the CD so that you can unmount it.

[GeneralZod]

I installed mine on a separate partition over a year ago and it has survived, untouched, through Mandrake 10, 10.1, Gentoo, Kubuntu 5.04, and Kubuntu 5.10 :D

5.10 is the only time I've had to do something other than enabling 3D on my card in order to get it to work (I had to install libstdc++5). It's a superb port and a great game!

[MetalMusicAddict]

I wrote a FAQ and files to turn the CD version into a DVD if anyone is interested. The files are about 30 megs I think. I shared then via Bittorrent.