Linux Quake 2 Server Guide
Last updated Thursday, December 02, 1999
By William Gall

This guides sole purpose is to help get a Linux Quake 2 server running without much hassle.  Being a newbie to the Linux world myself, I welcome any suggestions or hints and tricks that realy hardcore Linux users are sitting on.  If you have any constructive critisizm please feel free to let me know.  bill@3dgw.com.

This guide will assume you are running redhat and have some working knowledge of Linux.  I will also require that you know how to copy files from your Windows machine to your linux box either via Samba or FTP.

Installation
The first step is to get Quake 2 installed on the Linux machine itself.   I cheated on mine and used ftp to copy my Quake 2 installation from my Windows machine.  After Quake 2 is on the Linux machine we will need to install the latest Linux Updates which can be obtained from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/unix/   Redhat should know that the RPM packages assume you have Quake 2 installed in /usr/local/games/quake2 directory.  To install the glibc version you will also have to use the --nodeps flag or the installtion will fail unless you have glide installed which we don't need because we are running a server.  simply install the 3.20 patch with the following command line:

rpm -i --nodeps quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm

You will also want to install the screen utility so you can log out with your Q2 server running

screen-3.7.4-3.i386.rpm

Then make a text file that contains the following and call it lith:

cd /usr/local/games/quake2
screen ./quake2 +set dedicated 1 +set game lithium +exec server.cfg

After you have created your script to start the server you need to do a:

chmod +x lith

This will make it exacutable.

run the script. Once run you can hit ctrl+a and then ctrl+d and then exit the shell leaving your lithium server running.

To get back to the console later you simply type:

screen -r

at the command prompt and you are back at the controls of your Quake 2 server.

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