Ok -

I had a working install or ut2004 on my machine - I downloaded the patch from unreal's website for Linux retail.

It was called ut2004-lnxpatch3236.tar.bz2

I un-tar'd it to the same location and it created a folder called ut2004-update.

In that update folder were 4 folders with files in them - I was told that I should just cut the folders from the update folder and replace them with the same name folders in the main ut2004 folder - I did so and now the game just wont run...

I am very new to linux so I dont know what to do? How can I remove ut2004 and reinstall? Is that the best action since this is the only change that may have messed it up?

Bump for any assistance on this issue...or if someone can tell me the proper way to uninstall ut2004 so I can begien from scratch...???

Are you using a cracked version?

I am not sure what you mean by cracked?

I bought the game - installed all 6 disks and used my legit CD key...

I was then able to run the game fine as singleplayer but when I went to internet to play online, I get a message saying that there is a new patch available - I downloaded that and I think I messed that part up.

I extract the patch to the same destination folder the compressed patch was downloaded to...

Then I get 4 folders that seem to be identical to 4 folders in my ut2004 folder...I was told to delete the old ones in the ut2004 folder and replace them with the new 4 folders from the patch and that was all - I think that is where I messed up if that makes any sence

Run ut2004 from a command line. What is the error you get when running?

If it is an assertation failed error then what happend is you only applied half a patch. More specifically, the ucc-bin and ut2004-bin files didn't get copied over. Those 2 files need to be copied over individually.

cool - I reformated my entire OS because of a sound issue so I will try and re-download this again.

Thanks!

ok, I installed ut2004 again to / home / carlwill / ut2004

now I also downloaded the patch in extracted it to the location / home / carlwill

I open the new patch folder called UT2004-Patch

It has 4 folders called

- help
-system
-textures
-web

should I just move all them to the ut2004 folder or must I replace them with the same exact folders in ut2004 folder?

you need to move the contents of those folders into the appropriate folder in the /usr/local/games/ut2004 folder. eg. the contents from the patch System needs to be put int /usr/local/games/ut2004/System