Install Quake 3 on Raspberry Pi

Posted by on Jun 2, 2012 in Raspberry Pi, Tutorials | 30 comments

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  This worked for me.

Here is the easiest possible way to install Quake 3 on the Raspberry Pi with debian6-19-04-2012.  Just copy and paste the following in a terminal on the Pi:

cd ~
wget http://radium.hexxeh.net/quake3.zip
wget http://www.andershizzle.com/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip
unzip quake3.zip
unzip Q3\ Demo\ Paks.zip
rm quake3.zip
rm Q3\ Demo\ Paks.zip
mv ./baseq3/pak* ./quake3/baseq3/
rm -rf ./baseq3/
chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/start.sh
chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/ioquake3.arm
chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/ioq3ded.arm

Note: After reports of connection issues with the downloads, I have hosted mirror versions of the two files here:

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1816557/quake3.zip
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1816557/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip

To start quake3, switch to the install directory, and execute the start.sh script in a terminal:

cd ~/quake3/
./start.sh

 

30 Comments

  1. Sean
    June 7, 2012

    When I run the start script, I get:

    “GLimp() – could not load OpenGL subsystem”

    Any idea why?

    Thanks!

    reply
    • michael
      June 16, 2012

      Sean, this error is likely a path issue. The tutorial assumes you running Debian, on other distros you may need to modify /etc/ld.so.conf to include the location of the OpenGL libraries.

      reply
  2. Marcos
    June 15, 2012

    Couldn’t be easier!
    Is sound supposed to work? Didn’t for me, but then again I haven’t gotten any sound out of this thing yet.
    Thanks!

    reply
  3. Max
    July 1, 2012

    Hi Michael,
    Thank’s for your blog, good stuff here :-D
    I could not get quake3.zip on my RPi or my other computer… “Connexion refused”
    I’am alone with this message ?
    Thank’s

    reply
  4. Pidge
    July 5, 2012

    The quake3.zip comes down fringe from the server but there seems to be a connection issue for the Q3 Demo Paks.zip from the other server.

    Is this a known problem or is there an alternative server to get it from?

    reply
    • Pidge
      July 5, 2012

      Sorry about the spelling issues blame it on the crapple iPad!

      reply
    • michael
      July 8, 2012

      Hi Pidge, due to the intermittent availability of the zip files, I have update the tutorial with additional mirrors!

      reply
      • Pidge
        July 11, 2012

        Top man! All sorted! Thanks for your help, just had to ‘sudo’ the last three lines of code but it really is easy to instal!

        reply
  5. carlos
    July 9, 2012

    i dont understand the bit after you copy and paste the thing into terminal! help please!

    reply
  6. Matt (@CyberMaxpower)
    July 9, 2012

    I’ve just installed Quake3 on the Debian “wheezy” public beta Image.

    i get the following error message when I run ./start.sh

    1678115519: vchiq_lib: Very incompatible VCHIQ library – cannot retrieve driver version

    failed to open vchiq instance

    ( I also did sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade )

    thanks.

    reply
  7. Tim
    July 9, 2012

    Hi Michael, thanks for posting a such a simple guide. I ran the terminal commands without any problem but then got this when trying to run start.sh:

    **************************************************
    WARNING: pak0.pk3 is present but its checksum (2985612116)
    is not correct. Please re-install the point release
    **************************************************

    execing default.cfg
    couldn’t exec q3config.cfg
    couldn’t exec autoexec.cfg
    Hunk data failed to allocate 64 megs

    I’m using debian6-19-04-2012. Any idea where I’m going wrong? Thanks.

    reply
  8. Kate
    July 10, 2012

    can’t seem to run the demo, is it supposed to work?

    reply
  9. William
    July 14, 2012

    I am having the same issue as Tim.

    Hunk data failed to allocate 64 megs

    reply
  10. Rory Schmitz
    July 19, 2012

    Having the same issue. Any fix yet?

    reply
  11. Rory Schmitz
    July 19, 2012

    Sorry, this problem … Very incompatible VCHIQ library – cannot retrieve driver version * failed to open vchiq instance

    reply
  12. matjaz
    August 5, 2012

    I get this error: root@raspberrypi:~/quake3# ./start.sh
    1341215802: vchiq_lib: Very incompatible VCHIQ library – cannot retrieve driver version
    * failed to open vchiq instance
    pls help

    reply
  13. Jim
    October 15, 2012

    240265500: vchiq_lib: Very incompatible VCHIQ library – cannot retrieve driver version
    * failed to open vchiq instance

    I get this when I try to run the start.sh

    reply
  14. martin
    November 25, 2012

    vchiq_lib: Very incompatible VCHIQ library – cannot retrieve driver version
    * failed to open vchiq instance this what i get every time

    reply
  15. Fernando
    December 31, 2012

    Matt Dragon give us the key. It works but you need to replace the file

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1816557/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip

    for that one:

    http://www.apt-e.org/raspberry/Quake3.zip

    reply
  16. Bjorgvin Schram
    March 27, 2013

    Hi
    I get this error when I try to run it.
    ./ioquake3.arm: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting “)”)

    reply

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