UT2004 on Linux?

[Carlosinfl]

I have just installed ut2004 on Fedora Core 2 and I need to update to the latest patch.
I downloaded the file ut2004-lnxpatch3236.tar.bz2

How do I run this file? I am very new and am not sure how to un-tar this.

Thanks

 

[BillLeeLee]

If I remember my options correctly, you should be able to untar bunzip it by:

tar -xvjf [file name]

 

[rogue_jedi]

yeah, it's just "tar jxvf " then the file name. you do know tab completion, right?

the "-" isn't necessary.

also, for tar/gzip files, use "tar zxvf " + file name to extract.

 

[ameoba]

for some reason I still

gzip -dc |tar -xv

 

[NewBlackDak]

I never use v
I hate all that crap. It still gives you the errors if there is one.

 

[Carlosinfl]

wow

4 different answers for 1 question

 

[Xipher]

untar it, like what all the others said, then cd into the UT2004Patch dir ( or something to that effect) and as root cp -r * /usr/local/ut2004/ or wherever you installed the game. You only need to do it as root if you installed the game as root. also, make sure you copy over the files previously there, so if needed turn off noclobber (I don't use fedora so I don't know if thats set, and if you don't know what that setting is, you should be able to look it up on google)

 

[Carlosinfl]

ok, let me get this straight:

I have ut2004 installed in /home/carlwill/ut2004 as user , not root

I then downloaded the patch to /home/carlwill as user, not root

I am logged in as my one user, not root & I need to open a konsole window and

 cd /home/carlwill

- change dir to the patch

 ls = ut2004-lnxpatch3236.tar.bz2

- make sure the patch is visable in dir

 tar -xvjf ut2004-lnxpatch3236.tar.bz2

- un tar the patch

now my question is, what do I do next, the file is the untared but where is the extracted file stored? and then what is my next course of action to install this to my ut2004 directory?

 

[NewBlackDak]

The file will be untarred in whatever directory you're cd'ed to, and should be named ut2004-lnxpatch3236.

You'll then need to run ./ut2004-lnxpatch3236 as root I believe. I haven't patched mine yet though out of laziness.
That's something to known about tar. You can be in ~, and if you tar -zxf /path/to/some/file.tar.gz it will be decompressed in ~. This is why you should NEVER decompress an archive as root cd'ed to /. You have no idea what it is going to shipe out.

 

[Xipher]

The file will be untarred in whatever directory you're cd'ed to, and should be named ut2004-lnxpatch3236.

You'll then need to run ./ut2004-lnxpatch3236 as root I believe. I haven't patched mine yet though out of laziness.
That's something to known about tar. You can be in ~, and if you tar -zxf /path/to/some/file.tar.gz it will be decompressed in ~. This is why you should NEVER decompress an archive as root cd'ed to /. You have no idea what it is going to shipe out.

nope, this is not the case with these patchs. they are untared into a dir called UT2004-Patch. You simple cd into that dir after untaring it, then cp -rf * ~/ut2004/