Wishlist: Quake3 for Ubuntu

Scripsit Bastian Venthur <email address hidden>

> * License : GPL
> Description : a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

> This is the GPL'ed version of id's famous first person shooter quake3.

Sorry for asking perhaps stupid questions, but how is the availablity
of free game content for it? (As far as Google could tell me, it is
only the game engine that has been GPL'ed).

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You're right, there is no completely standalone Free game data for Quake 3.

However, this has been gotten around fairly simply before:

quake2 in contrib depends on quake2-data
quake2-data (also in contrib) presents a debconf question, allowing you
to download and use data files from the Quake 2 shareware, or install
the full data from a valid retail CD. Contrib is the right place for
this kind of software, and the use of an empty -data package with clever
debconf trickery (see: msttcorefonts) avoids the need for large non-free
chunks of data to reside on debian servers.

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Hi, I was just wondering about the status of this ITP.

Has a suitable upstream source already been selected?

Are there any free or open source mods that don't depend on id
Software's content?

Or will you adopt a similar scheme to the quake2 debian packages?
(quake2/quake2-data in contrib)

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I am currently creating a package for this, mainly because I did some
experimenting a couple of weeks ago with this.

Even though the game content is not available for free (beer, speech),
you can use the game content of a total conversion (e.g. UT) to compose
a working game.

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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

as for the sources:

the svn from icculus is pretty easy and straightforward to use for
GNU/Linux.

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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

The package is built and tested. Still need to clean up (build depends
etc).

The data file pkg is not yet done, but I tested by linking the pk3 files
from the official install.

Contact me for the binary package if interested. (or sources of course).
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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

I've just finished my first version of the quake3 packages.

I use the debian configuration of Jamie Wilkinson <email address hidden>, and
adjusted it (thanks man, you saved me a bunch of work :) ). The structure
of the packages is otherwise the same.
  quake3
  quake3-data

In order not to break possibly official installs, the startup script is
q3a (instead of quake3).

The game can (like the quake2 packages) be run from disk and CDROM. The
game can be played with the official CD available (pk3 files) or with
the demo of the game.

Different wrt the quake2 version is that you need to install the point
release to play the shareware/demo version as the full game, due to a UI
change in the code.

I have some further cleaning up to do, but the packages seem currently
stable enough to be used. One thing I certainly have to check is the
latest versions of the files floating around the net, but the last ones
I seemed to be able to pick up were:
  - linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
  - linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run

Future (to be expected this week) improvements will include installation
of Quake3 Team Arena.

If anyone is interested in the packages for testing, using; send me a
mail and I'll pass the URI along where you can download them, I am kind
of hesitant to publish the URI directly (my poor machine ;) )

Since I haven't seen any replies and/or further mails after the initial
ITP from the package maintainer (with the ITP about 24h of id going
GPL), I wonder if the maintainer continued this project, in which case a
reply would be appreciated. If not, ... euhm, what next?

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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

Am Sonntag, 6. November 2005 21:51 schrieb Marc Leeman
<email address hidden>:
> Since I haven't seen any replies and/or further mails after the initial
> ITP from the package maintainer (with the ITP about 24h of id going
> GPL), I wonder if the maintainer continued this project, in which case a
> reply would be appreciated. If not, ... euhm, what next?

Hi Marc,

as you can see, I've closed the my ITP a few months(!) ago. I just had not
enough time to package q3. Please feel free to maintain the package -- I'm
interested in playing q3 too ;)

Kind regards

Bastian

This one time, at band camp, Marc Leeman wrote:
>I've just finished my first version of the quake3 packages.

Who're you using for upstream?

(otherwise, cool; I havne't done anything yet due to time constraints)

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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

The provisional packages can be downloaded from:

http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian/

I am waiting for a sponsor and feedback to improve the packages.

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scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.13.2 #1 Fri Sep 23 07:23:21 CEST 2005 GNU/Linux

The packages are downloadable but I am awaiting a sponsor.

deb http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian binary/
deb-src http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian source/

Closed the original bug since I cloned it to two others (should have
done this only once): quake3 and quake3-data.

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