Quake 3 Arena

Quake III Arena is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by id Software company in 1999. Quake III Arena is the third game in the Quake series and differs from previous games by excluding a traditional single-player element. Quake III Arena is available on a number of platforms including Linux.

Installation on Linux

Go to the URL: chttps://ioquake3.org/get-it/

download the files...

Go to the URL: https://ioquake3.org/extras/patch-data/

download the file: quake3-latest-pk3s.zip

execute the .run file, be it the 32 or 64 bit version. here we use the 64 version.

~/games/quake3 $ ./ioquake3-1.36-7.1.x86_64.run 

This opens a graphical install interface within x. check paths for game and binary. Click install.

You will notice the addition of ioquake3 under the Menu->Games in x and also the creation of ~/.q3a

Now copy the contents baseq3 folder from the Quake 3 Arena CD (or your paid version installation) and paste it into the .q3a folder. This should include a folder called baseq3. For my install it also included a folder called Quake3 and sound, however, I dev custom maps, mods, and audio. Yours may only have baseq3 such as on your original paid version installation.

Finally, other online guides recommend installation of the game patch. This is from the file quake3-latest-pk3s.zip you obtained from patch-data and when extracted contains a folder quake3-latest-pk3s with some updated files in baseq3 and a folder called missionpack.