Well, you really suck at being informative if you want help! :P

What distribution do you run? apt-get is Debian or Ubuntu. Neither has a quake package but iirc tyrquake and quakeforge at least. If you run Archlinux you could probably install tyrquake through AUR. 

Looking at the raspberian repository there is Quakespasm 0.85.7! Install that, perfect engine (better than Fitz, as it is a fork and updated).

So "apt-get install quakespasm". .pak files into ~/.quakespasm/id1/ 

Ricky I did what you suggested and it's doing something at least. Who knows what, but this is what I got:

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# sudo apt-get install quake
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dynamite game-data-packager libdynamite0 quakespasm
Suggested packages:
lhasa jlha-utils lhz-archiver quake-armagon quake-dissolution
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dynamite game-data-packager libdynamite0 quake quakespasm
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 541 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,354 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

YES. 

Nice, then they used an alias for that. Great that they use Quakespasm for that! 

I wasn't expecting that to work :)

I just learned a teeny tiny bit of Ubuntu from setting up my VPS. 

I wasn't expecting it to actually work either. But it installed some exes (I guess?), tried to run one and it said I need the data of course. But then it told me what files to put where so I'll try that and give it another go. 

I got the thing installed with my pak files after much shenanigans. I think it's right but fucks knows what is going on with this crazy-ass setup.

I think the game is trying to run but it's dying with this error:

QUAKE ERROR: Couldn't set video mode

Arse biscuits! 

Maybe if you re-install the video driver it will fix it?

http://forums.xonotic.org/showthread.php?tid=2122 

-window

-fullscreen

-width XXX -height XXX -bpp XX 

Reminder: Copying downloaded files manually on Linux STILL WORKS despite everybody telling you to sudo apt-get something. Incredible, I know.

Put pakfiles and Linux quake client in the same file structure as you would on Windows, eg in your home folder. Install libSDL stuff via software center if needed (DP and FTE have Linux binaries that don't need SDL at all).

apt-get is the equivalent of prepackaged installers on Windows. If you don't use an installer to play Quake under Windows, chances are you don't need apt-get under Linux.

Video drivers supplied by companies are usually recommended over their free alternatives. It might not matter for Quake though. 

reminder: raspberry pi is ARMv6, I am not aware of any common engine providing binaries for that.

why would you recommend not using package management to stay up-to-date and also have binaries installed in your PATH right away? package management is one of the main benefits of Linux for random people. 

Awesome that raspbian has quakespasm. I should try to get things going on my pandaboard at some point. 

Goes right over my head... 

I got Quake 3 running, the frame rate was pretty much why bother land, and I had no sound of course, but still, that was nice. It would probably run faster if I launched it from the command line rather than the GUI yeah? Since this is linux we're talking about I imagine I'd have to rewrite my sound drivers in assembler and make my own custom firmware after soldering something to the circuit board of this thing.

No success with Quake, I'm sure it would be easy to set up for the Gurus but since I have no idea what I'm doing I hit a wall. I'll try again later.

Next I'll try Raspbmc, if I can get that going I suppose that'll be something actually useful I can do with this thing:

http://www.howtogeek.com/119924/build-a-35-media-center-with-raspbmc-and-raspberry-pi/

That page also says expect to wait 4-5 weeks for your pi. That's pretty funny! I ordered mine in April and only just got it now! 

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/ is great 

 

Yeah - the Gnome project is a bit of a worry. But at least KDE 4 is a solid thing now. 

5:13 - 'Fusion;

5:23 - Isn't that your texture!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLAeo_wGmV0&feature=g-vrec 

yes, that is footage from Cube, which used some of the original rubicon textures (with permission) 

anyone got any scraps?