Works well on my system and hopefully on yours as well.

Now tell the game-data-packager application to sort out the data files: game-data-packager -i quake3 ~/.q3a/baseq3/pak0.pk3Īfter some considerable downloading and repackaging you can now start fragging!!! Obligatory screenshot below: 'pak0.pk3' -> sure the path to your file pak0.pk3 is correct or you will get an error message of 'File not found.'. Mkdir: created directory cp -v pak0.pk3 ~/.q3a/baseq3 source Quake 3 Arena engine (http : //ioquake3. Another reasonable and perhaps more traditional location for this file would be /usr/share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/ but the location in $HOME worked well enough for me and I illustrate the required syntax here: mkdir -pv ~/.q3a/baseq3 0 Go to a Web site that describes how to install, get patches for. After a bit of experimentation I created ~/.q3a/baseq3 and moved the file there. Now move the vital pak0.pk3 file to the location of your choice. First run the following command from a Terminal window: sudo apt install quake3 game-data-packager innoextract

You will need to install both the Quake 3 package as well as the application game-data-packager to create a non-distributable Quake 3 data package. I also installed Quake 3 from the Ubuntu Repository and managed to get the full game running successfully. But I prefer to make my own installation using the pak0.pk3 and an installer (see end for more info on where to find the.

How to install ioquake3