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Malkavian
Asked: 2016-08-08 04:07:31 +0800 CST

game-package-manager quake 2 install

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On a lubuntu 16.04 xenial machine I'd like to install quake2, more for test than anything. And then I'd like to install a quake 2 server, but first things first: I've copied from my windows partition to my lubuntu desktop the old quake 2 game folder, from a windows install. So on the desktop I have a Quake2 folder, and inside there are: baseq2, rogue, xatrix subfolders. I've installed quake2 binaries with apt: apt-get install quake2

What I'm trying to do is figure out how to have game-package-manager make the relative deb files for the full quake2 (baseq2), the reckoning (rogue), ground zero (xatrix).

Has anyone done it successfully, or does anyone knows the syntax for that?

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    I just tried this on a virtual Lubuntu machine and it worked.

    sudo apt install quake2 game-data-packager

    game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-full-data /home/[redacted]/q2/baseq2

    This generated "/home/[redacted]/quake2-full-data_44_all.deb" - it did download some stuff, as you mentioned in a comment.

    Installed that with gdebi and the game started up fine with /usr/games/quake2

    For the expansion packs

    game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-groundzero-data /home/[redacted]/q2/rogue

    creates quake2-groundzero-data_2.02+44_i386.deb, install this, run with /usr/games/quake2 +set game rogue

    game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-reckoning-data /home/[redacted]/q2/xatrix

    creates quake2-reckoning-data_2.03+44_i386.deb, install this, run with /usr/games/quake2 +set game xatrix

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  2. game-package-manager quake2 always try to download files for me

    That's a bit vague. It could be downloading the Demo version because it couldn't locate the full game.

    Or donwloading "q2-314-demo-x86.exe" anyway even if you have the full game; because you have lost some/all of the HTML doc files along the time. (these will be installed in /usr/share/doc/quake2/).

    So using "--package" it's the best way to tell GDP explicitely what you want.

    The ~/.steam/... thing is only for games downloaded with (wine +) Steam or steamcmd. Just specify the right path as an argument to GDP command (or '.' for current directory) and it will scan the subdirectories from there.

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