On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Joe Marchak wrote: > > Phillip Neumann wrote: > > I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file: > > quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz > > After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to > > /usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said: > > I'm not sure about the download file you used ... I used these: > quake2-dm-3.13-2.deb > quake2-3.14a-3.deb
The download he used is the most up to date release of quake2. There are a few changes necessary to get it working via the debianised version, including overwriting the old ref_*.so libraries (rendering engines), and renaming the quake2 binary to "quake2.real". I will gladly help further if you want. > Then I put the distribution pak in: > usr/local/lib/games/quake2/baseq/pak0.pak ^^^^^ I hope thats supposed to be baseq2 > Also, create the directory <$HOME>/.quake2. This is where the > ref_soft.so ends up, and it looks like your system can't find > it ... that may be your problem right there. No need, the wrapper script creates all that stuff for you. It makes symbolic links to all the necessary files. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The man who invented the eraser pretty well sized up the human race. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!