How to Install Quake 3 on a Raspberry Pi

Original Post Date 5th June 2012

This how-to was completed on Debian, but the method should be the same for other OS's.

1. First you need to download a couple of files:
    a. http://radium.hexxeh.net/quake3.zip (3.1 Mb)
    b. http://www.andershizzle.com/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip (69 Mb)
To do this change to the directory you want to download them to:
    cd /home/pi/

Now use 'wget' to download the files to the current directory:
    wget http://radium.hexxeh.net/quake3.zip
    wget http://www.andershizzle.com/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip

2. Now you need to extract the two zip files you just downloaded.
To do this simply use 'unzip'
    unzip quake3.zip
    unzip Q3\ Demo\ Paks.zip

3. Now you need to move all the pak files that were extracted from Q3 Demo Paks.zip to baseq3 over to quake3/baseq3/
To do this we use 'mv'
    mv baseq3/pak* quake3/baseq3/

4. Now we need to give a few files permission to run
This is done using 'chmod'
    chmod +x quake3/start.sh
    chmod +x quake3/ioquake3.arm
    chmod +x quake3/ioq3ded.arm

5. All done, now its time to launch Quake 3!
First we need to change the current directory to the directory that contains start.sh
    cd quake3
Then we need to run start.sh
    ./start.sh

6. ALL DONE! If you were doing this via SSH, then you will only see this:

But if you did this directly on you Pi, you should, with any luck, see Quake 3 running.

(For you SSH users Quake 3 should be running on the Pi as well, you just need to hook up the HDMI output)