how do install UT2004 demo?? i suck.

448grams · 02-24-2004, 10:12 PM

i downloaded UT2004 demo and when i click on it file roller extracts stuff i think for like 5 min and nothing really happens..

o ya i'm new to linux and i know next to nothing

i use red hat 9

purplecow · 02-25-2004, 03:53 AM

The installation file is most likely an installer. I recon it was something like "UT2004Demo.run.gz", if that was the case, then you first ungz it with

Code:

tar xvf filename.gz

, or tell Fileroller to do that for you. Then, you run it.

Code:

sh filename.run

I have alltogether ditched Fileroller and other confusing graphical user interfaces for managing files, and encourage you to do the same.
It's really a lot slower to accomplish things with them compared to a terminal. And this does not make me a huge linux-guru, I'm just a user.

Micro420 · 02-25-2004, 12:01 PM

Scroll down in this forum and look for other threads like this that has already been made. You're not the only one that could not figure this out.

By the way, you can't "tar" it like the other person said because it's not a *.tar file.

LavaDevil94 · 02-25-2004, 03:36 PM

its extracting. just wait, the script is about 500mb

448grams · 02-25-2004, 04:39 PM

i got it to install , ya it just takes a long time , but they did get 500mb into a 199mb package...

anyways i installed it and i click on it and i can see the game launch screen, the box that says unreal 2004 and demo but then my screen blanks for a sec like its starting then it just goes right back to my desktop..

linux sees my card correctly as a radeon 9700pro..

why does it not start the game?

448grams · 02-25-2004, 04:41 PM

o ya and your right its not a tar.. its a .bz2 or somthin

Nukem · 02-26-2004, 03:23 PM

It's not 500. It's 19* something. So many people have already asked this question enough times. May be someone should post a thread about this as news on this board. So it would stay on top all times and no more junk.

Thetargos · 03-01-2004, 04:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 448grams
i got it to install , ya it just takes a long time , but they did get 500mb into a 199mb package...

anyways i installed it and i click on it and i can see the game launch screen, the box that says unreal 2004 and demo but then my screen blanks for a sec like its starting then it just goes right back to my desktop..

linux sees my card correctly as a radeon 9700pro..

why does it not start the game?

You did install the ATi drivers, did you?

Just go to the ATi page and download them. Depending on your distro and version of X Windows you can download the driver for XF86 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. Follow the instructions.

If you're using an rpm based distribution (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE) you install just as the readme says. If you've got Debian use alien, if you've got Gentoo use portage (emerge ati-drivers), the most difficult distro to install the drivers to is Slackware (you have to convert the rpm package, then install it).