Install Quake III on Linux

Post by **obsidian** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:34 am

Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy" AMD64-bit version.
Video drivers up to date.

I'm following this guide:
http://blog.xwings.net/?p=11

Seems easy enough, but when I get to running the script, I get the following error:

sudo sh /usr/local/games/quake3/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Quake III Arena Point Release 1.32b.................................................................................................................................................
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.0 on Linux / unknown
(tried to run setup)
Please contact Id software technical support at bugs@idsoftware.com, or ttimo@idsoftware.com
The setup program seems to have failed on unknown/glibc-2.0

Please contact Id software technical support at bugs@idsoftware.com, or ttimo@idsoftware.com

Linux noob alert... any ideas?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:59 am

I wager it's because your libc is x86_64 while the Q3A installer / binary is a regular x86 app. Give http://ioquake3.org/quake3/ a try, they have an installer for your architecture (alas, no PB support).

Post by **obsidian** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:27 pm

AMD's have the ability to run both 64 and 32 bit apps, right? So any possibility of running the script on another computer running Linux x86_32 and then copying the necessary files over?

Failing that, can IOQuake be played online with others running vanilla Quake3?

Post by **menkent** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:46 pm

tried T&T yet?

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=13

Post by **obsidian** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:12 pm

Figured it out, I'll write a little tutorial in a minute...

Edit: See post here...
http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26024