Quake3World

I've been trying to get a few linux apps to work, but they don't.
To be specific, ezquake, pbsetup, and some other quakeworld clients.

I try to execute them using sh and I get this error in return:

ezquake.svga: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

or

glqwcl.glx: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


I'm not sure what the problem is.
I'm using ubuntu feisty fawn (7.04)

Do the files contain the shebang (the #/path/to/interpreter bit at the top) and what does /bin/sh point to (ls -l)? Might be that those scripts expect bash but that you are running e.g. tcsh.

^misantropia^ wrote:Do the files contain the shebang (the #/path/to/interpreter bit at the top) and what does /bin/sh point to (ls -l)? Might be that those scripts expect bash but that you are running e.g. tcsh.

I'm not sure, I'm not too familiar with linux that well.

Well, what do the files look like when you open them in an editor?

I should be using xinit to execute the glx file, when I do I get this error:

xinit ezquake-gl.glx

X: warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requested priority 0

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

xinit is for first starting X (the windowing system), then the program of your choice. But since you're already running X, you can drop that bit.

^misantropia^ wrote:Well, what do the files look like when you open them in an editor?

Could not open the file /home/collin/Desktop/ezquake/ezquake-gl.glx using the Unicode (UTF-8) character coding.

Why don't you give quakeforge a try. Don't know too much about ezquake.

Alright I got ezQuake to run, but now I get slurred and suttering sounds.