How to set up GTKRadiant

[Dingo_aus]

GTKRadiant is software that allows you to create maps for games such as Quake 1 - 4, Doom 3, ET etc etc

It is now GPL'd and available from http://www.qeradiant.com/

The latest beta binaries are usually available as .rpm packages from the front page there.

To install it for Ubuntu, this is what I found worked for me.
(I presume you have set up universe repositories etc already)

Download the gtkradiant*.rpm available and note where you put it.

(Install "alien" on your ubuntu distro if you don't have it already. You can do this via adept or the synaptic package manager)

Make sure you close adept or synaptic after this step so alien an access the package database.

Open a console and change dir to the directory where you downloaded the .rpm to.

run "alien gtkradiant*.rpm"

This will produce a .deb file in the same directory downloaded the rpm to.

Install that .deb file (you can just click on it from a konqueror window if you want)

This will install GTKRadiant on your system. The executable is found at "/opt/gtkradiant/radiant.x86"

Before you can run it though you will need to fire up adept (or synaptic or whatever) again and install the "libgtkglext" library.

now run "/opt/gtkradiant/radiant.x86" and enjoy!


EDIT: BTW if you are using KDE like I am you will probably want to disable "Ctrl-Tab" desktop switching so Ctrl-Tab can be used with GTKRadiant instead. To do this, open a console and type "kcontrol" and then goto "Regional & Accessibility" > "Keyboard Shortcuts" and edit "Walk through desktop list" to "none" - that disables it.

[amunimanghi]

This is exactly what I did:

ameen@manghi:~$ cd Desktop
ameen@manghi:~/Desktop$ sudo alien -d gtkradiant-1.5.0-2006-03-02.i386.rpm
Password:
gtkradiant_1.5.0-8_i386.deb generated
ameen@manghi:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install libgtkglext
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libgtkglext
ameen@manghi:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper Release.gpg
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [30.9kB]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Sources
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Get:6 http://users.lichtsnel.nl dapper-seveas Release.gpg [309B]
Hit ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper Release.gpg
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages [4571B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources [1478B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources
Get:9 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper Release.gpg
Hit http://users.lichtsnel.nl dapper-seveas Release
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [30.9kB]
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper/main Packages
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [37.7kB]
Get:12 ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper Release [1387B]
Hit http://users.lichtsnel.nl dapper-seveas/all Packages
Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper/main Sources
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [22.1kB]
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Packages [8363B]
Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Packages [866B]
Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Sources [1823B]
Hit http://users.lichtsnel.nl dapper-seveas/all Sources
Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Sources [427B]
Get:20 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [25.1kB]
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper Release.gpg
Get:21 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [4253B]
Get:22 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [6227B]
Get:23 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [974B]
Get:24 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [5271B]
Get:25 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Packages [1677B]
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [639B]
Get:27 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper Release
Get:28 ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Packages
Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Sources [533B]
Ign ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Packages
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper Release
Get:30 ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Sources
Get:31 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Packages
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Packages
Get:32 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Packages
Ign ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Sources
Hit ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Packages
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Sources
Get:33 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Sources
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Sources
Get:34 ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Sources
Ign ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/free Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.free.fr dapper/non-free Sources
Fetched 186kB in 29s (6341B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
ameen@manghi:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install libgtkglext
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libgtkglext
ameen@manghi:~/Desktop$

It seems that I don't have libgtkglext. I have all of the neccesary sources. Is it possible to download the file and install it? If so, how would I install it?

[tkmn]

I searched for it and found out the correct name is libgtkglext1.

sudo apt-get install libgtkglext1

apt-cache search name

For Quake 3 and Enemy Territory, I recommend the stable version.

linux-radiant-1.4.0.run

[amunimanghi]

Okay thanks, it worked. I'm going to try to make a level for Jedi Academy.

[Rashid584]

I tried it with 1 on the end, it still didn't work

-Rashid

[billyfoxtrot]

Rashid,

Try searching for the package in Synaptic. I found it there.

The problem I'm having is I get a segmentation fault every time I try to run the program. I see the splash screen and then a box pops up, but every time I click OK, I get the segfault. Anyone know how I could fix this? By the way, I'm trying to use the latest 1.5.0 beta version.

[Rashid584]

Yeah, I tried with adept (KDE) didnt find it

-Rashid

[CalcProgrammer1]

I installed it with the alien thing. It works for editing maps but I can't get it to build them. I added the enginepath_linux thing to ja.game and then I tried changing [RadiantPath] and [EnginePath] in ja.game/default_build_menu.xml but it won't build... I also then tried to make and compile a map for Quake 3 (which I don't have) to see if it would compile. Nope, it did not. Does anyone know how to get q3map2 or the build menu to work right?

[henriquemaia]

I have installed the libgtkglext1 and I'm still getting the error:

./radiant.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

.
Any ideas how to solve this?

[billyfoxtrot]

I have installed the libgtkglext1 and I'm still getting the error:

./radiant.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

.
Any ideas how to solve this?

Did you try installing the libgtkglext dev package as well?