How To Install quake3 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is quake3
quake3 is:
This package contains a launcher script and menu entry to play Quake III Arena or Quake III: Team Arena with the ioquake3 engine.
To make this package useful, you will need to create and install the non-distributable quake3-data or quake3-demo-data package, by using the game-data-packager package.
quake3-data requires pak0.pk3 from a Quake III installation or CD-ROM. quake3-demo-data only requires freely downloadable files, but is not necessarily reliable.
game-data-packager (>= 39) can also produce a package for the official expansion pack Quake III: Team Arena. An additional menu entry should appear automatically if that expansion are installed.
There are three methods to install quake3 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install quake3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install quake3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quake3
Install quake3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quake3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quake3
Install quake3 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install quake3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quake3
How To Uninstall quake3 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the quake3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quake3
Uninstall quake3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quake3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quake3
Remove quake3 Configurations and Data
To remove quake3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quake3
Remove quake3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quake3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quake3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
