Installing Quake 3 demo in linux ...

[Spector_306]

I downloaded the quake 3 demo installer, and installed the demo.

First time I tryed to play the demo, I get an GL error message. :( After playing arround a while I realize Quake 3 wants libGL.so, and in my ' /lib' file, I only had libGL.so.1, so I link libGL.so.1 to libGL.so, and SUCCESS, no more GL errors.

Now I get a NEW error. "Error Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm." so I search the internet for a while and find out that to get the ui.qvm file, I have to compile it from source. Fair enough, I did just that and ended up with all the .qvm files I could ever need (including ui.qvm). :)
here are some links to better explane what I did. Where I found out that I have to download source (http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006307.html), Download source (http://tremulous.sourceforge.net/Q3A-source/)

Now I just need to know where to put these .qvm files. I tryed '/usr/local/games/q3demo' (where I chose to install the demo) and ' /root/.q3a/', '/root/.q3a/demoq3' (so you know, yes, I AM trying to play Q3 as root) puting the vm file in all those directories, with the same error message. :cry: :bang head :

Was compiling the .qvm files from source the correct thing to do?? If so, where do I install these files so Q3 can see them ?? Thank you in advance,

-Spector

[Titan386]

This is a semi-educated guess, so be warned:

It will probably look for those files in the same directory as the game, or perhaps if there's a vm subdirectory, in there. Is there a /usr/local/games/q3demo/vm directory? That would be my best guess as it where it ought to go, based on the error its giving you.
I don't think those sorts of files are of any use to other parts of the system, so there's no reason to have them elsewhere.

Why are you running as root? It seems like a very bad idea to be running X as root, let alone a game.

[Spector_306]

Originally posted by Titan386
Why are you running as root? It seems like a very bad idea to be running X as root, let alone a game.

I do this so that I may modify anything I wish, without having to su or relogin as root or create a super-user. Its kinda nice to have 100% controll over EVRYTHING in the system.

I tryed puting the files in a '/usr/local/games/q3demo/vm' directory, which wasnt there and I had to create, with the same results. :(

I'm gonna look on the net some more, if I find anything I will post it.