Install Quake 3 on Raspberry Pi

June 2, 2012 - 1 min read

ARM
Game
Linux
Quake3
Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu

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