Howto install Quake 3 Arena on Xubuntu

Howto install Quake 3 Arena on Xubuntu

http://theblackzone.net/howto-install-quake-3-arena-on-xubuntu-1404

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But fortunately, while researching the problem, I stumbled upon the "et-sdl-sound" hack by Pyry Haulos et al.

In short, this hack squeezes its own "compatibility library" between the game and the ALSA sound system and replaces the OSS sound function calls at runtime.

To use it, we need the following libraries

sudo apt-get install libsdl-sound1.2:i386
sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386

Then we need to get and install the quake3-sdl-sound hack with

wget http://nullkey.kapsi.fi/et-sdl-sound/quake3-sdl-sound.gz
gunzip quake3-sdl-sound.gz
chmod +x quake3-sdl-sound

Now we Edit ./quake3-sdl-sound

vim quake3-sdl-sound

and uncomment and change the Variable LIBSDL to

LIBSDL="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSDL-1.2.so.0"

At this point we can finally run

./quake3-sdl-sound

and enjoy Quake 3 Arena to the max :-)