[mohaa] Linux install...

[Andrew (KARZAC) Furbey]

they wont fix the game for us, why pay more? :p
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcos Dias" <marcos at netrangers.com.br>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [mohaa] Linux install...


> But  this is an illegal thing because the pk3 files of MOHAA isn't free.
>
> []'s
>
> Marcos Dias
> www.netrangers.com.br
>
>
> Fábio Alves wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > is there any1 there who has discovered how to install mohaa in linux
> > without using windows ?
> > I've done it today (was my first time installing mohaa actually)
> > (using /home/mohaa and linux-distro based on RPM in this mini-howto)
> >
> > How i've done it:
> >
> >
> > - Create the install dir
> > mkdir /home/mohaa/install
> > cd /home/mohaa/install
> >
> > - Copy both cd's contents to that directory
> > cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* /home/mohaa/install/
> >
> > - Download and install unshield, a tool to extract files from
> > InstallShield .cab's (check
> > http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/unshield.php)
> > wget
> >
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/synce/unshield-0.4-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > rpm -ihv unshield-0.4-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > - Extract all files to /home/mohaa
> > unshield -d /home/mohaa x data1.hdr
> >
> > - Copy Pak2.pk3 and some other files to their dir
> > cp main/Pak2.pk3 /home/mohaa/Data_Files_Minimal/
> > cp *gamex* /home/mohaa/Data_Files_Minimal/
> > cp ffx86.dll /home/mohaa/Data_Files_Minimal/
> > cp config.csv /home/mohaa/Data_Files_Minimal/
> >
> > - now, you have 2 options... you can use my script that create and
> > copy all files to the right folder or you can do it yourself... :)
> > cd /home/mohaa
> > wget http://www.lan-arena.org/grexil/mohaainstall
> > sh mohaainstall
> >
> > - after this, you can just read the rest of ryan's how-to :)
> >
> > NOTES:
> > PROBLEM  - I had MD5 problems when extracting the pak1 and pak3 from
> > the cab... i don't know if my CDs where damaged... i don't think so...
> > SOLUTION - To resolve that problem, i just edited unshield's source
> > and removed the "problem" (check lib/file.c line 689)
> > wget http://www.lan-arena.org/grexil/unshield-0.4-LA.tar.gz
> > tar jxf unshield-0.4-LA.tar.gz
> > cd unshield-0.4-LA
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install (you need root to do this)
> >
> > -Grexil (http://lan-arena.org/grexil/ | grexil<at>lan-arena.org)
> >
>