Quake 3 on linux mint

Installing Quake 3 in Linux Mint

I had a bit of a hard time installing and running Quake 3 Arena with ioquake3 under Linux. The root of the problem was probably that I was trying to use the promising-looking packages in the Ubuntu package repositories ( quake3 , ioquake3 ). Unfortunately, those packages seemed to be a dead end.

Since I eventually got it working, I wanted to document it to save others the headache. I’m running Linux Mint 17.1, but these instructions probably work equally well on Ubuntu and possibly other distributions.

One thing you should know up front is that you need to somehow get a copy of the file pak0.pk3 . You can find it on a Quake 3 CD or you can get it by some less legitimate means. That one (~450 megabyte) file contains the copyrighted Quake 3 Arena game assets and is all-important for playing the game (whereas pak1.pk3 , etc. are provided by the ioquake3 project, freely available online). If you can’t or don’t want to find the Q3A pak0.pk3 , you can explore other games running on the Quake 3 engine.

Step 1

From the ioquake3 download page, download both the “engine” and the “data” installers. These are two GUI applications which do not need to be run with root privileges. In my case, the two files were ioquake3-1.36-7.1.x86_64.run (engine) and ioquake3-q3a-1.32-9.run (data). Now I run:

$ chmod +x ioquake3* $ ./ioquake3-1.36-7.1.x86_64.run 

In this screenshot you can see the options I chose. Afterwards, I manually set up a symlink so the ioquake3 executable is in my global path:

$ sudo ln -s ~/Games/ioquake3/ioquake3 /usr/local/games 

Step 2

Now I run the data installer which will install the freely available pak1.pk3 , etc. in the ~/Games/ioquake3/baseq3/ directory:

Again, here’s a screenshot with my options. Note that, because you’ve performed this step, it is not necessary to separately install any of the official Q3A point release updates.

Step 3

Copy pak0.pk3 into your baseq3/ directory; in my case, this is ~/Games/ioquake3/baseq3/ .

Done

Now if you run ioquake3 the game should start. You can leave the CD key blank when the game prompts for it.

Because this wasn’t installed through a package manager, there isn’t an automated way to uninstall. It seems that all of the game files are in (1) the directory you chose during installation, and (2) ~/.q3a . In order to uninstall, remove those two directories.

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quake3-server on Linux Mint 20.3 «Una»

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install quake3-server package:

2. Uninstall / Remove quake3-server package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall quake3-server package:

3. Details of quake3-server package

Package: quake3-server
Architecture: all
Version: 64
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/games
Source: game-data-packager
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 186
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: adduser, ioquake3-server, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), quake3-data | game-data-packager (>= 23), python3:any
Recommends: game-data-packager (>= 39)
Suggests: quake3-team-arena-data
Filename: pool/multiverse/g/game-data-packager/quake3-server_64_all.deb
Size: 33612
MD5sum: 8451d655783ad3066ed323f432ed4d95
SHA1: fb38ec2077909bedc97b34f2c26c11a67885234e
SHA256: b4164e4dfd34f84929f631cc9ff0de6266f5a3ded87d6e0ae1f3d901a1f70b32
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager
Description: Quake III Arena dedicated server launcher scripts
Description-md5: b581844db5e190ba8c02893ca380aaa8

4. References on Linux Mint 20.3 «Una»

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions

quake3-server (58) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

quake3-server (16) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

quake3-server (65) Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

quake3-server (67) Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

quake3-server (68) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

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quake3 on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»

Please follow the guidance below to install quake3 package:

2. Uninstall / Remove quake3 package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall quake3 package:

3. Details of quake3 package

Package: quake3
Architecture: all
Version: 68
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/games
Source: game-data-packager
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 202
Depends: game-data-packager-runtime (>= 68), ioquake3, quake3-data | quake3-demo-data (>= 40) | game-data-packager (>= 23)
Suggests: quake3-team-arena-data
Filename: pool/multiverse/g/game-data-packager/quake3_68_all.deb
Size: 90688
MD5sum: 57f3d8beb0ec089605ffec26bee4bca5
SHA1: 8b97e7b00ca63c390da6c0b9f43c75872ce350df
SHA256: d61db2742d3360a309d5146208763d23f18077a5c16333a2113eb95c1c7cdec6
SHA512: 6d5ee6580a16289de8e1859f50e98410549172a17e5fee733884361ed74229db2022265fcb8f4dd639285a8a3c1d75616afc7bebc7b3e09d6da0e9d67e883352
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager
Description: Quake III Arena menu entry and launcher scripts
Description-md5: 95de72c22be84cf9e01669d0c2eaf9d3

4. References on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions

quake3 (58) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

quake3 (16) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

quake3 (65) Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

quake3 (67) Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

quake3 (68) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

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quake3 on Linux Mint 20.3 «Una»

Please follow the instructions below to install quake3 package:

2. Uninstall / Remove quake3 package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall quake3 package:

3. Details of quake3 package

Package: quake3
Architecture: all
Version: 64
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/games
Source: game-data-packager
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 205
Depends: game-data-packager-runtime (>= 64), ioquake3, quake3-data | quake3-demo-data (>= 40) | game-data-packager (>= 23)
Suggests: quake3-team-arena-data
Filename: pool/multiverse/g/game-data-packager/quake3_64_all.deb
Size: 93324
MD5sum: f981158d6f57a245f1a498f75607d68c
SHA1: f95a9bb8fe75089899dda04841b5491a9c7d7c28
SHA256: d20411dac301214e4d68de6aba3bfd1a832cbad3fb5ddd4163fe3391c864c211
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager
Description: Quake III Arena menu entry and launcher scripts
Description-md5: 95de72c22be84cf9e01669d0c2eaf9d3

4. References on Linux Mint 20.3 «Una»

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions

quake3 (58) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

quake3 (16) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

quake3 (65) Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

quake3 (67) Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

quake3 (68) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

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Installing Quake 3 in Linux Mint

I had a bit of a hard time installing and running Quake 3 Arena with ioquake3 under Linux. The root of the problem was probably that I was trying to use the promising-looking packages in the Ubuntu package repositories ( quake3 , ioquake3 ). Unfortunately, those packages seemed to be a dead end.

Since I eventually got it working, I wanted to document it to save others the headache. I’m running Linux Mint 17.1, but these instructions probably work equally well on Ubuntu and possibly other distributions.

One thing you should know up front is that you need to somehow get a copy of the file pak0.pk3 . You can find it on a Quake 3 CD or you can get it by some less legitimate means. That one (~450 megabyte) file contains the copyrighted Quake 3 Arena game assets and is all-important for playing the game (whereas pak1.pk3 , etc. are provided by the ioquake3 project, freely available online). If you can’t or don’t want to find the Q3A pak0.pk3 , you can explore other games running on the Quake 3 engine.

Step 1

From the ioquake3 download page, download both the “engine” and the “data” installers. These are two GUI applications which do not need to be run with root privileges. In my case, the two files were ioquake3-1.36-7.1.x86_64.run (engine) and ioquake3-q3a-1.32-9.run (data). Now I run:

$ chmod +x ioquake3* $ ./ioquake3-1.36-7.1.x86_64.run 

In this screenshot you can see the options I chose. Afterwards, I manually set up a symlink so the ioquake3 executable is in my global path:

$ sudo ln -s ~/Games/ioquake3/ioquake3 /usr/local/games 

Step 2

Now I run the data installer which will install the freely available pak1.pk3 , etc. in the ~/Games/ioquake3/baseq3/ directory:

Again, here’s a screenshot with my options. Note that, because you’ve performed this step, it is not necessary to separately install any of the official Q3A point release updates.

Step 3

Copy pak0.pk3 into your baseq3/ directory; in my case, this is ~/Games/ioquake3/baseq3/ .

Done

Now if you run ioquake3 the game should start. You can leave the CD key blank when the game prompts for it.

Because this wasn’t installed through a package manager, there isn’t an automated way to uninstall. It seems that all of the game files are in (1) the directory you chose during installation, and (2) ~/.q3a . In order to uninstall, remove those two directories.

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