Mini Linux Quake 2 Server Setup Guide
Updated 03/24/99

Here are some step by step instructions to get a Quake 2 server up and running on Linux.  This was was sent in by a reader and therefor I won't be able to answer many questions concerning it.  I hope it proves to be usefull.  If any of you Linux Guru's would like to add to this please let me know bill@3dgw.com.

This is how I managed due to the Linux guy leaving (my knowledge of Linux is non-existent :-() ).  We have one Linux & one NT box. I Also FTP'd files between machines (NT box) on our network, but this should be pretty much similar for a Linux dedicated network.

How I Setup Q2CTF on LINUX (this is if Quake 2 is already setup on Linux)

• Get the file q2CTF102.zip from ID (if you have installed Q2CTF full install on 95/98 it is missing the Linux mod gamei386.so variant)
• Also grab the Linux quake2 and executable from ID as well.  
• In Linux you should already have a directory in the /usr/games called quake2 (/usr/game/quake2) or similar.
• Make another directory under quake2 call ctf
• Make another directory under ctf called baseq2 and place the mod gamei386.so in this directory.
• Grab the pak0.pak which comes with the q2ctf102.zip file and also place it in your baseq directory that you have just made.
• IMPORTANT:  You will need to re-number the pak0.pak file to the next pak number even if it is not in your main quake2/baseq directory. I found this out the hard way as it was grabbing the pak0.pak from the main quake2/baseq2 directory whenever I was trying to run Q2CTF.  
• Look in ALL your baseq2 directories.  Example:  If your last pak number is say pak3.pak, make the CTF pak number pak4.pak
• With the Linux quake2 executable, place this in your quake2/ctf directory

This is a strange bit below, but it works :-)

• Now you will have to change to your ctf directory as the quake2 executable is in there.
• Run the following to enable the Q2CTF server:

./quake2 +set dedicated 1 +set port 27920 +game ctf +exec server.cfg

• If you tried to run on port 27910 (default) it won't let you (that is if you already have a quake2 dedicated server running, so you will have to run CTF on another port eg. 27920

If you set it up remembering about the gamei386.so (easy to get these mixed up) variant file and the pak files the rest is a piece of cake.  Once you do this you can set up many mod variants as you like (as this took me about a week to learn by myself - my second CTF variant server took me 1 hour to complete :-)

Oh, one last thing, the PAK files are actually the maps.  If your CTF server is looking for say map q2ctf1 or maps/q2ctf1.bsp etc etc, then you haven't matched the right pak file that corresponds with the gamei386.so file.

That's basically it (and it fits on a page - yeehaa)

Cheers & Good Luck

ThE MaSTer

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