UT2004 Patch For Linux

carlosinfl · 09-11-2006, 09:06 AM

Ok - I was looking to install the latest UT2004 patch for Linux (Retail) and well...I can't find it. I went to their home page and under the 2004 section I selected "downloads" and all I can see is a 2003 Linux Retail Patch. I don't understand why this is in the 2004 downloads page?

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raska · 09-11-2006, 11:41 AM

Here at Gamespot, reg required, not a big deal though

carlosinfl · 09-11-2006, 12:24 PM

I registered for that site and downloaded the latest patch but it says I first need the ECE Bonus Pack & I have no idea where or what that is. I don't see it in the downloads page.

Quote:

This Linux version for the v3369 upgrade includes a number of fixes and requires the ECE bonus pack to be installed first:

raska · 09-11-2006, 01:40 PM

There's a so-called wizard here to help you find what you are missing.

Just grab this one and do as the page says before unpacking the 3369 patch:

Quote:

rename to .zip and unpack to UT2004 directory

If you are still having trouble with them patches, please let me know I could upload them temporarily at my web server

dive · 09-11-2006, 04:10 PM

Best place for patches is http://www.unrealadmin.org/

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raska

There's a so-called wizard here to help you find what you are missing.

Just grab this one and do as the page says before unpacking the 3369 patch:

If you are still having trouble with them patches, please let me know I could upload them temporarily at my web server

So I am downloading this one as you recommended. It appears to be a .exe file but the site says to rename it as a .zip file. I have never seen that work but I am guessing you have tried this and it works...right?

raska · 09-12-2006, 01:02 PM

yup, I tried it yesterday and it worked.
That's because the .exe is a self-extracting zip package, if it misses the .exe it is just a zip archive like any other to linux's look

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 01:14 PM

Ok - I have the "ut2004-ecebonuspack1-1.zip" unzipped to my /home/user/Desktop directory but I am worried I will break the game. Do I just copy and overwrite the files in /home/user/games/ut2004/ directory?

The game (UT2004) is installed under /home/user_account/games/ut2004/.

raska · 09-12-2006, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

...I am worried I will break the game...

Just issue an

Code:

cp -R $HOME/Desktop/ecebonuspack_or_whatever/* $HOME/games/ut2004/

After that, do the same with the 3369 patch.
That should not break the game as those are official patches from an official mirror, it has never happened to me nor anyone that I know of

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 01:57 PM

As root or just regular user?

raska · 09-12-2006, 02:02 PM

As the user that owns that $HOME dir.
I always install games in /usr/local/games/ so keeping any kind of application in /home is an oddity to me. Just personal taste.

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 02:04 PM

I tried to keep the default location for games and it is odd for me too - I normally don't have games in my home directory but when I made my Debian system...I did not think ahead and it only has 10GB for "/" and 4 GB free. My home is a seperate partition and has 755GB available...

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 02:09 PM

OK - well - I had to be root since I did not have access to write to the "ut2004" dir even though it was in my home directory. I copied all like you said and now UT2004 does not work...

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ sudo cp -R ecebonuspack/* /home/cwilliams/games/ut2004/
Password:
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ sudo cp -R ut2004-lnxpatch3369-1/* /home/cwilliams/games/ut2004/
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ cd /home/cwilliams/games/ut2004/
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/games/ut2004$ ls
Animations     KarmaData  README.linux  System     UT2004_EULA.txt
Benchmark      Manual     Sounds        Textures   ut2004.xpm
ForceFeedback  Maps       Speech        uninstall  Web
Help           Music      StaticMeshes  ut2004
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/games/ut2004$ ./ut2004
./ut2004-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

PLEASE HELP!

dive · 09-12-2006, 04:00 PM

For first problem change into root then do a

chown -R cwilliams /home/cwilliams/games/ut2004

Next problem: I think libstdc++ is part of the standard c++ libraries. Sounds like you need to install them.

carlosinfl · 09-12-2006, 05:45 PM

Why would I not need them pre patch install and then need them after I tried to install them?