Well, this tutorial was nearly fool-proof until someone decided to break Mandrake's
supermount again. So, this tutorial may not work as expected for you unless you
run
supermount -i disable as root and then reboot. Note that if you do this,
your life will be both simpler (for installing games) and harder (because you'll have
to mount drives with an extra mouse click). Look at my broken drive icons tutorial if
you want to know how to make a new icon, and the Lexar Media tutorial if you want to
know how to mount the drives with the new icons.
Okay, make sure that you have the following items handy, as I'm sure that you
already have, or else why would you want to read this tutorial?
Computer that meets the minimum hardware requirements
Unreal Tournament CD(s)
Working Internet connection
Download one of the following files, and store it somewhere on your drive. You may
want to keep it, as that would save you having to download it again should
you ever desire to reinstall it. Make sure that you right click on this link,
and choose to save it from there, otherwise it will open up the file in your
browser, which won't do you any good.
If you have Unreal Tournament, download this: ut-install-436.run
If you have Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition, download this: ut-install-436-GOTY.run
Insert the Unreal Tournament CD into your CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or CD-RW drive.
Open a terminal window from the directory where you downloaded the
installation file by pressing CTRL+T while in KDE.
Type su and then press Enter. This allows you to Switch User to "root," which
is necessary to install some applications (such as Unreal Tournament).
Type in the root password and then press Enter. If you don't know the root
password, then you can reset it using my tutorial.
You should be left at a prompt that ends with the pound sign (#).
You need to make the file executable, so type in chmod +x ut-install*
and hit Enter.
Now type ./ut-install and then press Tab to autocomplete the filename.
Now press Enter. The script will run, and you will be presented with the installation
screens.
Please note: I have not installed the original Unreal Tournament, so it may not be exactly
the same as the following procedures. However, you should be able to figure it out by going
from the remainder of this tutorial.
Now, you can choose your install path, the link path, as well as what to install:
Probably leaving them at the defaults would be best.
If you do not have a Voodoo video card, you should set the Default Renderer option to OpenGL.
Click Begin Install.
You may be prompted for the first CD, if it isn't in your drive.
Insert it and then press Retry.
Unreal Tournament is now installing.
Now sit back and wait.
After a time, you will be prompted to insert the second disk. Do so, and click
on Yes. (Note: This may not be the case if you are installing a
non-GOTY version of Unreal Tournament.)
Once the progress bar reaches near the end, the computer will seemingly stop
activity, with the exception of the hard drive light.
It will look something like this:
This is because the maps are being decompressed in the terminal window.
If you look at the terminal window, you will see something like this going on:
Just sit back and relax while this is happening.
Once this is all finished, then everything is ready to go. You will be
presented with options to begin playing or to just quit the installer,
so do as you please.
Create a new icon on the desktop, set it to execute ut, and then just
click it to run the game! Alternately, you could just run it from a terminal
(CTRL+T) or from the command line (ALT+F2).
Enjoy!