Quake 2 on Ubuntu 20.04

Buy, download, extract

Buy the game, download the installer to ~/Downloads/q2/ and extract the files using InnoExtract:

cd ~/Downloads/q2/
innoextract setup_quake2_quad_damage_2.*.*.*.exe
rm -r tmp/  # gog installer files
mv app/ ~/games/q2/

Install and Configure Yamagi Quake 2

Install the quake2-engine package without the game-data-packager 1.

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends \
  libopenal1 quake2-engine
mv ~/Downloads/q2/app/ /usr/share/games/quake2/
ls /usr/share/games/quake2/

Create a launcher and Play

cat <<'EOF' > ~/.bin/q2
/usr/lib/quake2/quake2-engine -datadir ~/games/q2/ "$@"
EOF
chmod +x ~/.bin/q2

Configuration

cd ~/.yq2/baseq2/
git init .
git add .
git commit -m initial
cat <<'EOF' > ~/.yq2/baseq2/autoexec.cfg
exec bindings.cfg
EOF

cat <<'EOF' > bindings.cfg
bind e "use grenades"
EOF

See also

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675678575

• https://steamcommunity.com/app/2320/discussions/0/1734343065619797360/

Notes

• press Alt+Enter to toggle fullscreen

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1

The game-data-packager introduces indirections and installs stuff at /usr/share/games/. I want to keep it simple: Get binary (engine), point it to data dir, play!