What works: Quake III Arena's baseq3/pak0.pk3: its CD or an ISO of it, an installed copy (Steam, GOG) or GOG's Quake III Gold installer (with Team Arena).
1. With Walnut Games
In Walnut Games, open Quake III Arena: Install, then Add game files... The chooser lists the disc in the drive, mounted discs and USB sticks, GOG and Steam folders, and the ISOs, installers and archives in Downloads and your home folder; you can also pick a file or folder yourself. It checks every file against the checksums below and installs an ordinary package (quake3-data), which Remove data takes away again.
In a terminal, the same with walnut-data (part of Walnut Games):
walnut-data import quake-3-arena /path/to/your/copy
A source is the disc in the drive (/dev/sr0), an ISO (.iso, .img), a BIN/CUE image (the .cue, or the .bin with its .cue next to it), an Alcohol 120% image (the .mds, or the .mdf), an installer or archive (GOG's setup_*.exe) or a folder (an installed copy, Steam's or GOG's). Images are opened read-only; nothing is copied out of them that the game doesn't need.
Add-ons, each from a copy that has it (the app shows Also add for every one the source holds):
| Package | What | Command |
|---|
quake3-team-arena-data | expansion | walnut-data import -p quake3-team-arena-data quake-3-arena /path/to/your/copy |
With Walnut's licensed suite as an apt source, the app offers Install from Walnut licensed instead (walnut-data install-repo quake-3-arena). walnut-data remove quake-3-arena takes the data away again.
Which editions work
- A Quake III Arena CD (or its ISO, or an MDF/MDS image of it):
baseq3/pak0.pk3. The CD’s release is older than 1.32, so the import downloads id’s 1.32 point release (linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run, 30 MB) for pak1 to pak8, the files ioquake3 needs.
- GOG’s Quake III Gold (
setup_quake3_2.0.0.2.exe, or the folder it installs): Quake III Arena and Team Arena, both at 1.32; nothing is downloaded. The installer is unpacked whole, so it needs more free space than the folder.
- Steam’s
common/Quake 3 Arena folder: the same files as GOG’s.
- The demo (
quake3-demo-data) is a package of the same tool; it has not been tried.
What you get
Two menu entries, shown once their data is there: Quake III Arena (fs_basepath /usr/lib/quake3/base) and Quake III: Team Arena (/usr/lib/quake3/ta, fs_game missionpack). Both start fullscreen at the TV’s resolution with the OpenGL 1 renderer and a pad mapping (triggers fire and zoom, shoulders change weapons, A jumps, B crouches, Start opens the menu), from Walnut’s autoexec.cfg in each folder.
2. With game-data-packager
walnut-data runs game-data-packager, Debian's tool that makes a package out of game data: Walnut's build of it (Debian's 89 with our patches) comes with Walnut Games. Run it yourself to keep the .deb, or to make it on another computer. It writes <package>_<version>_all.deb into the folder after -d (. is the current one), one package per -p:
| Package | What | Command |
|---|
quake3-data | full | game-data-packager -d . -p quake3-data quake3 /path/to/your/copy |
quake3-team-arena-data optional | expansion | game-data-packager -d . -p quake3-team-arena-data quake3 /path/to/your/copy |
Then install the file it made, from the same folder:
sudo apt install ./quake3-data_*.deb
--no-download: only your files are used. Without it game-data-packager may download the official patch files it knows (quake3-data, quake3-team-arena-data); the commands above leave it out for those.- It reads a folder, an installer or an archive; it doesn't open disc images. Mount an ISO first (open it in the file manager, or
udisksctl loop-setup -r -f FILE.iso, then udisksctl mount -b /dev/loopN) and give it the mount point, or let walnut-data do it. BIN/CUE and MDF images: walnut-data only.
3. By hand
Copy the files to the paths below as root (sudo cp), with the names exactly as written, upper and lower case included: Linux tells them apart. Where a file has several accepted versions, any one of them does. Check a copy with sha256sum FILE (sha1sum or md5sum where the table says so) and compare the sum. Files copied by hand belong to no package: Walnut Games goes by the packages, so it still shows the data as missing, and Remove data leaves them alone.
quake3-data (full)
Into /usr/share/games/quake3-data/baseq3, 482.1 MB.
| File | Versions | Size |
|---|
pak0.pk3 |
- |
457.3 MB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 479,493,658 | 7ce8b3910620cd50a09e4f1100f426e8c6180f68895d589f80e6bd95af54bcae |
|
pak1.pk3 |
- |
365.6 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 374,405 | d4ffd60b4b414c3419499e321b6f5c2e933cf082df85823ad2d6ae2f803e1682 |
|
pak2.pk3 |
- |
7.2 MB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 7,511,182 | ccae938a2f13a03b24902d675181d516a431699701ed88023a307f34b5bcd58c |
|
pak3.pk3 |
- |
269.8 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 276,305 | d03c0a0e06b99f9ecca2be7389f57faed406e85f7c09b9c56afdfa53ba25e312 |
|
pak4.pk3 |
- |
9.2 MB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 9,600,350 | af5f6d5c82fe4440ae0bb660f0648d1fa1731a9e8305a9eb652aa243428697f1 |
|
pak5.pk3 |
- |
187.4 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 191,872 | 69f87070ca7719e252a3ba97e6483f6663939c987ede550d1268d4d9a07b45bc |
|
pak6.pk3 |
- |
7.0 MB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 7,346,884 | bb4f0ae2bf603b050fb665436d3178ce7c1c20360e67bacf7c14d93daff38daf |
|
pak7.pk3 |
- |
313.4 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 320,873 | de6283ce23e3486a2622c5dbf73d3721a59f24debd380e90f43a97d952fea283 |
|
pak8.pk3 |
- |
443.8 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 454,478 | 812c9e97f231e89cefede3848c6110b7bd34245093af6f22c2cacde3e6b15663 |
|
And 22 links, where the engine looks:
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak0.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak1.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak1.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak2.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak2.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak3.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak3.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak4.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak4.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak5.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak5.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak6.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak6.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak7.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak7.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak8.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/base/baseq3/pak8.pk3
sudo ln -s BotCommands.html /usr/share/doc/quake3-data/Help/BotCommands.htm
sudo ln -s DedicatedServer.html /usr/share/doc/quake3-data/Help/Dedicated Server.htm
sudo ln -s Index.html /usr/share/doc/quake3-data/Help/Index.htm
sudo ln -s Readme.html /usr/share/doc/quake3-data/Help/Readme.htm
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak1.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak1.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak2.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak2.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak3.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak3.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak4.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak4.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak5.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak5.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak6.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak6.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak7.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak7.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-data/baseq3/pak8.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/pak8.pk3
game-data-packager also packs 220 documentation files (manuals, licences) into /usr/share/doc/quake3-data; the game doesn't need them.
quake3-team-arena-data (expansion, optional)
Into /usr/share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack, 336.4 MB.
| File | Versions | Size |
|---|
pak0.pk3 |
- |
335.3 MB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 351,623,691 | fdb5fe4f15f22bd270628d9b3153b733ca4548207722e768051c08c9dbff9135 |
|
pak1.pk3 |
- |
374.9 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 383,888 | 9818e99ba58d91f231a650a3c42559d1c5661cb3c0dfd033ef4225ba8ecdfd60 |
|
pak2.pk3 |
- |
367.4 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 376,234 | 6cc56de0bf7b58e30164ab487c51deb0fa7c62dbd7d0a5421a5d5aa58f31a3f4 |
|
pak3.pk3 |
- |
375.3 KB |
Checksums
| Bytes | sha256 |
|---|
| 384,282 | 77c0bcbb61be81a389d8959b76969a801a5e589d97ab8aeb2cb7ced54f187fc7 |
|
And 18 links, where the engine looks:
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak0.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak1.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak1.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak2.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak2.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak3.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak3.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak4.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak4.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak5.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak5.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak6.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak6.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak7.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak7.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-data/baseq3/pak8.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/baseq3/pak8.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/missionpack/pak0.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak1.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/missionpack/pak1.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak2.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/missionpack/pak2.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../../share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak3.pk3 /usr/lib/quake3/ta/missionpack/pak3.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../../games/quake3 /usr/share/games/quake3-team-arena-data/quake3-team-arena
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak1.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/missionpack/pak1.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak2.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/missionpack/pak2.pk3
sudo ln -s ../../quake3-team-arena-data/missionpack/pak3.pk3 /usr/share/games/quake3/missionpack/pak3.pk3