Quake 3 Arena demo installation problem in Debian
I get a weird problem in installing Quake 3 arena demo in Linux. Whenever I run the executable, it opens a new konsole and then I get dumped back to the command line with the message
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I even tried running with sh linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh and bash. But nothing works at all. It's executable and all the permissions are correct. When I run it in the pure text-mode I get more errors, presumably that the file cannot be identified as a gz, but I am unable to capture all those errors in a text file even when I tried to. Has anybody been able to install Q3 arena demo of late? I don't have a powerful enough laptop to play Quake 4 Demo, so I'd prefer to use Quake 3. Sorry if I'm unable to provide more error info, but the problem is that the shell script is not exactly user-friendly enough to dump an error log somewhere and I couldn't find any similar error mentioned on the web as well. I downloaded the demo from the official id software ftp. |
I even tried running with sh linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh and bash. But nothing works at all.
The FAQ sez to run "/bin/bash2 /location/of/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh". When I run it in the pure text-mode I get more errors, presumably that the file cannot be identified as a gz, but I am unable to capture all those errors in a text file even when I tried to. Try "/bin/bash2 /location/of/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh 2>&1>/tmp/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh.log" then read /tmp/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh.log. Apparently the installer uses a installation wizard GUI. |
unSpawn, thanks for the reply.
I tried nearly every way of trying to run a shell script possible on Linux, but it didn't appear to work, so I deleted it. Nevertheless, I'll download the demo and try again. I tried the redirection thing too to capture the error in a file, but probably I missed something. I'll try the command you've mentioned. |
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