Hi.

I made simply to use installer for Linux version. Now You don't need Wine to install and download patch. Just put Unreal in cd-rom drive and click next At this moment installer have 227e patch included (when 227 will have official,stable release - i update installer). What do You think about this idea ? It's not professional project - i build this for fun. Feel free to use (if You see any bug - write on this thread because this is Beta).  It's working on your distro ? Again - it's not professional - i made this for fun and this is my first serious installer. Still is more to do.


p.s : I'm from Poland and i don't now english perfectly. If You see any word in poor "english" in installer  - correct me in this thread.  And if You want to see installer buttons in Your native language - tell  

GreatEmerald is right, it needs to check for the original version, otherwise... but if so, great news

Sorry but i don't understand. Installer install only files needed to run under Linux (files from patch). If You have Cd with Unreal - just put disk into cd-rom drive. Then installer install this files and copy rest from CD. Most of Linux installers install only linux binaries and rest you must copy from CD (ex. Doom 3, Quake 1,2,3 etc.). Why then my installer is illegal if files from patch 227 are free ? If You don't have Cd with Unreal - You don't play. Installer don't have any illegal files included. If i'm thinking wrong - correct me (maybe i miss something).

Installer base on professional components. Frictional Games uses this same installer for his series of games - Penumbra. My installer is not professional because i'm not working in big company who create games (like Frictional). I'm only fan of Unreal and I made installer like Chunky some years ago (http://icculus.org/~chunky/ut/unreal/) and this is reason why my installer is not professional    



[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ - installer works. I have proof :



Installer can works in gtk, fltk and ncurses (all library is included in installer). Working fine in Ubuntu 8.04. It's normal shell script. Are You trying to run installer from console ?

If Cd with Unreal isn't in cd-rom drive then installer install only patchfiles (like all installers for native, commercial games for Linux). But without Cd with game - you can't play, because you don't have rest of files like textures, music etc. Summa Summarum - without Cd only native binary (patchfiles) will be installed. It's not a problem because 227 and files included in this patch are legal.

If we have Cd with Unreal in cd-rom drive, then installer install patchfiles (native binaries needed to run game under Linux) and copy rest of files from CD (and only then) like textures, music, sound etc. We can use iso image too (if we have original version of course) - just mount it somewhere - installer ask where you have mounted Cd or mounted iso image, because i'm not sure  /media/cdrom is right path in all distributions. We can mount iso with help of applications like gmountiso or AcetoneISO2.
So - if We don't have CD with game - it's no way to play game because we don't have textures and rest of files. Only files what installer have included is file from patch (someone could check this  - maybe i've missed something ?). Only way to play is buy Cd with game (if someone don't have).

If we have Windows version installed already (with help of Wine), installer is simple way to install only patch and make native version   Two function in one installer  

Of course color of installer depends on theme used in system. It's integrate with them (like most of Linux apps). 

p.s : Smirftsch - no problem.

I am afraid not - i don't now how to build installer for Windows and what components i may use. Primary target of components i used to build installer is to run but on unix-like systems (like Linux, OpenSolaris, *BSD etc.). Basically you could build new installer for Unreal similar to my, but question is - what for (standard installer works fine, but he looks what he looks).  I don't have experience with software to build installer for Windows (and i don't have Windows). You must ask someone on forum, who knows something about this. I'm really sorry, but i cannot help You 

p.s : Second breath on Unreal - new installer, game with S3TC instead normal and 227 patch. Shame we cannot do this compilation legally on mass scale (this compilation was be legally only for homework use - if we have original version).

Trydi, of course you are right- in theory.
But for me its a question which is more problematic than for anyone else, because I'm bound additionally to contract which forbids many things.
Anyway, I'm no lawyer so I can't risk anything here- and I only can advice anyone to do the same. If this installer works like the original one does and only then, its completely safe from any legal issue. That's reason, its not about logic, its about law.

Still, is it possible to change the installer so that it only installs / or extract the files if a CD is there?
Its no question how other games are doing it or if these are legal or not, I just want it as close as possible to the original installer to prevent trouble.

You see, if you have only the patch files, you can still use things like UT Package Tool to extract contents that are property of Epic, not OldUnreal (such as files like UnrealI.u - the package had to be updated, but 99% of the content in it is a property of Epic Games!).
Another issue is that there will also be an installer for Unreal Gold. If it doesn't check for a CD, a person might install the 227 patch for Gold on a Non-Gold Unreal and get a free expansion pack - and that is obviously illegal.

And finally, checking CDs isn't the best way to do it too. There are CDs like TotallyUnreal and DVDs like Unreal Anthology - you can install Unreal from them, but your installer probably won't detect them and thus decide that you shouldn't install it. So it should also be possible to install over an already installed game - you can make sure the game is real by checking the directory structure and files inside.

However, Unreal Anthology needs a separate installer anyway, because if you can't install it from Linux, you need to have Wine to install it first, and then use an installer like this for the patch. It would be cool if a separate installer for Anthology was created, so there wouldn't be a need for Wine for Anthology users. Here's a manual way of installing UT2004 and other games to Linux without Wine:
http://www.liflg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=810

The Unreal and UT installers by icculus have special checks that don't allow you to install Unreal without a CD too. However, in a sense you're right, for example, all UT2004 patches for windows come in a self-extracting ZIP file which you can open with WinRAR or WinZIP and get the files even without having the game. But we have to keep the installation of 227 strict as this is a semi-official patch that uses unique code given by Epic only to Smirftsch, and Epic are concerned that the code wouldn't be leaked anywhere.

is it possible that you send me the sources of it so that I can make a installer for 227f? Only with your permission and credits etc. of course. But I think for the official version I have to build it myself...