Quake 2 on Ubuntu 22.04#
Note
You cannot as of 2023-10-31 run Quake 2 Enhanced on Linux.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/15o4pth/comment/jw4b4da/
Cheatsheet#
ls ~/games/q2 # install data
ls ~/.yq2/ # configs
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
Buy, download, extract#
Buy the game, download the Quake II (Original) 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
install -d ~/games/
mv app ~/games/q2
Install fixed “Ground Zero” Extension (rogue)#
The elevator in rogue was missing. :D
git clone https://github.com/yquake2/rogue.git /tmp/rogue/
cd /tmp/rogue/
make -j8
install -d ~/games/q2/rogue/
cp release/game.so ~/games/q2/rogue/
Create a launcher and Play#
cat <<'EOF' > ~/.bin/q2
/usr/lib/quake2/quake2-engine -datadir ~/games/q2/ "$@"
EOF
chmod +x ~/.bin/q2
Configuration#
install -d ~/.yq2/baseq2/
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
Notes#
press Alt+Enter to toggle fullscreen
vkquake2#
sudo apt install make gcc g++ mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxxf86dga-dev libxxf86vm-dev libasound2-dev libx11-dev libxcb1-dev
wget -qO- https://packages.lunarg.com/lunarg-signing-key-pub.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/lunarg.asc
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunarg-vulkan-1.3.268-jammy.list https://packages.lunarg.com/vulkan/1.3.268/lunarg-vulkan-1.3.268-jammy.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vulkan-sdk
vulkaninfo | rg -A2 'Presentable Surfaces:'
cd ~/github/
g clone https://github.com/kondrak/vkQuake2.git
cd vkQuake2/
cd linux/
make -j 8 release