Linux Help

(Fudge) #1

Hello,
Vista has done my head in, so I’ve obtained Ubuntu.
I found some installer or something for Linux version of Quake Wars but do not understand how to use it. (I’ve tried double clicking and says;
Could not display “/home/andrew/Downloads/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run”.
There is no application installed for executable files.)
I have the Windows disk and believe that I will require it when prompted or something.

Any help would be appreciated and and links towards Linux noob sites.

Thanks in Advance

(Fudge) #2

Ok, I think that I may have got it though Right Clicking and going to the properties, there was something about running as an executable.
If I am about to blow up my PC?(Are Linux machines a PC?) please try and warn me.

(murka) #3

Installion is pretty straightforward, just install it to home dir so pb can update and stuff.

(Fudge) #4

Yha, thanks. I’ve now got it installed. ( had to enable something under the properties). Started to play a game, think it was the quarry level, and it crashed to the desktop.
I got this on Windows, and so stopped playing it, any ideas or links?
Thanks again.

(murka) #5

run from console and see what errors it prints…

(otakustar) #6

perhaps your grafix-card is broken?

(Fudge) #7

Hmm… I had some feelings quite a few times that my card was broke. So I had my whole PC sent off to some specialist (not just for the Card though) and if it was broke I’d thought they would have picked that up. Is there any way to test it through Linux without me buying another 8800 GT?

(otakustar) #8

install glxgears, in terminal

sudo apt-get install glxgears

run it

glxgears

should give you something like:

[otaku@tiny ~]$ glxgears 
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
78322 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15664.397 FPS
78416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15683.089 FPS

:stroggbanana:

(Obadiah) #9

Most of the time when I have problems on GNU/Linux I run the game from the bash/command prompt instead of mouse clicking to start it up. This will give you many status messages that you can use to troubleshoot the problem.

(Setlec) #10

[QUOTE=Fudge;229221]Hello,
Vista has done my head in, so I’ve obtained Ubuntu.
I found some installer or something for Linux version of Quake Wars but do not understand how to use it. (I’ve tried double clicking and says;
Could not display “/home/andrew/Downloads/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run”.
There is no application installed for executable files.)
I have the Windows disk and believe that I will require it when prompted or something.

Any help would be appreciated and and links towards Linux noob sites.

Thanks in Advance[/QUOTE]
So, to install open a terminal as root or as your user!

run those commands to install

# chmod u+x ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run
# ./ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run

the rest you can figure out by yourself!

PS: on linux and most unix-like there is no such thing as an installer like on windows we prefer to run thing from the terminal!

(Deluxo) #11
  1. Be sure you have latest drivers for your GPU.
  2. Always update your system frequently.
  3. Google few commands and get used to terminal so you feel comfortable.
  4. Feel free to PM me for help. I already had some experience with installing, running this game properly.
(brbrbr) #12

if thats localized version of ETQW, Linux client NOT run. Not run AT ALL !!
[polish, russian and few other mid-european and east-european editions are checked. even french version have some ed-specific things w/L-UX binaries4ETQW client.
if you got x64 Linux, make sure you got all ia32 thingies for bw[to x86/32-bit appz]-compatibility, from ETQW-critical, ones.
Also check some GLX-related libs[usually not installed “by default”].