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Building Quake III Arena on Linux from ioquake3 source
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Building Quake III Arena on Linux from ioquake3 source

Requirements

  1. Get quake3-latest-pk3s.zip from https://ioquake3.org/extras/patch-data/
  2. Get pak0.pk3 from the original copy of the game

Steam pak0.pk3 location:

steamapps/common/Quake 3 Arena/baseq3/pak0.pk3

Build

git clone https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3
cd ioq3
make
wget /quake3-latest-pk3s.zip
unzip quake3-latest-pk3s.zip
rm quake3-latest-pk3s.zip
mv quake3-latest-pk3s/baseq3/pak* build/release-linux-*/baseq3/
mv quake3-latest-pk3s/missionpack/pak* build/release-linux-*/missionpack/
rm -d quake3-latest-pk3s/baseq3 quake3-latest-pk3s/missionpack quake3-latest-pk3s
cd build/release-linux-*
cp /pak0.pk3 baseq3/

Run

./ioquake3.*
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