Re: [PLUG] Quake III

[Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

yeah, i got myself a copy of q3 from microcenter for $1.99.  can't beat a
bargain like that!  i should add that it comes not only with q3, but in
this snazzy (but flimsy) silverish tin, and with an 'evaluation' copy of
suse linux too!  who'd have thought, 2 dollars gets you a classic deathmatch
game and an operating system to boot.

anyway, wrt the install, it *does* give you the option of where to put the
installation, but i can't verify for sure that it doesn't sneak anything
anywhere else, since the only computer i could play this on wasn't mine.

what i'd do is (as an unpriviledged user) tell it to install somewhere like
/tmp/q3 and see how it goes.  if it doesn't complain, then it's most likely
not trying to sneak something into /usr et c.  I'd still be wary of
installing this as root though, maybe what would be in order is creating
a directory /usr/local/q3 and chown it temporarily to an unpriviledged
user, install it, then chown it back to root.

--sean

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:13:12PM -0400, Gregson Helledy wrote:
> A friend has just presented me with a new-in-the-box copy of Quake III for
> linux.
> (Sadly, he was able to buy it for $1.99, though I guess I'm about to benefit
> from others' misfortune.)
> I recall hearing that Loki's install scripts often weren't very "clean",
> scattering stuff everywhere across your filesystem.  Has anyone had any
> experience with this, and is there anything I could do in advance to reduce
> the mess?
> 
> I am running Libranet 2.0 (Debian-based).  Maybe I'm revealing my ignorance
> but is there any way to "squeeze" QIII into a .deb (like checkinstall does
> for tarballs)? I also have my old SuSE partition still around, which I could
> try installing it on first, but I'm not sure what that would get me.
> 
> Greg
> 
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