Installing Unreal Tournament in Linux
CONVENTIONS USED

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:
    Install Options
    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 CD
    Insert it and then press Retry.


    Unreal Tournament is now installing.
    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:
    Installation halted?


    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:
    Decompressing
    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!


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