How To Install quake3 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3 on CentOS 7.
What is quake3
This package contains the enhanced opensource ioquake3 version of the Quake 3 Arena engine. This engine can be used to play a number of games based on this engine, below is an (incomplete list) * OpenArena, Free, Open Source Quake3 like game, recommended! (packagename * Urban Terror, gratis, but not Open Source FPS best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter, a downloader and installer including an application menu entry is available in the urbanterror package. * World of Padman, gratis, but not Open Source Comic FPS, a downloader and installer including an application menu entry is available in the worldofpadman package. * Quake3 Arena, the original! A downloader and installer for the gratis, but not Open Source demo, including an application menu entry is available in the quake3-demo package. If you own a copy of quake 3, you will need to copy pak0.pk3 from the original CD-ROM and your q3key to /usr/share/quake3/baseq3 or ~/.q3a/baseq3. Also copy the pak?.pk3 files from the original 1.32 Quake 3 Arena point release there if you have them available or run quake3-update to download them for you.
We can use yum or dnf to install quake3 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quake3.
Install quake3 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install quake3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quake3
Install quake3 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install quake3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quake3
How To Uninstall quake3 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the quake3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quake3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
