OldUnreal (Engine)

Yes, I've partially switched to Linux (on the actual machine as opposed to a Virtual PC). I still have Faildows Pissta (Windows Vista) on the original partition, so if Linux is too much awesome for me, I can switch back and forth at any time.

So far, Linux is great! But there's one big... no, HUGE flaw with it!

It doesn't have Unreal on it!

Can anyone tell me how to get Unreal up and running on Linux? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 I believe.

Another flaw is that it causes my keyboard to freak out from time to time. Lemme check the settings...

easiest way is to get the WinLin patch, install it windoze and copy the directory over.
Due to limitations (I'm not officially allowed to use another installer) you must rely on the windows .exe patch. So if you want to use Linux only, you need to run the patch with wine to install it.
After installing (or copying it over) you can run it native without wine in console with ./UnrealLinux.bin in the System directory (or create a shortcut to where ever you want it).

And check:
http://www.oldunreal.com/wiki/index.php ... _Linux_FAQ

You can use linux installer
http://necrovision.ru/mfiles/unreal/unr ... -linux.run

I can't seem to be able to install Wine, nor do I now what to do with that installer! Do I save it to my desktop? I'm terribly confused... Linux isn't at all like Windows.

You save it, set it's chmod to +x, open the command line, navigate to where you saved it and enter ./unreal227f-linux.run

download installer, save it to some directory, chdir to this directory and write:
$export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/UnrealGold
$sh unreal227f-linux.run
After installation:
$cd /to/installed/Unreal227f
$./unreal

You save it, set it's chmod to +x, open the command line, navigate to where you saved it and enter ./unreal227f-linux.run

Couldn't I just drag and drop it into the terminal? EDIT: It would seem I can't. Oh well. It's working now, though.

download installer, save it to some directory, chdir to this directory and write:
$export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/UnrealGold
$sh unreal227f-linux.run
After installation:
$cd /to/installed/Unreal227f
$./unreal

Okay, now you're just not making any sense. This is my first time actually really using Linux! I don't know what you guys are talking about! What do I do with "$export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/UnrealGold"? There's no directory with that name.

EDIT: Okay okay, I got it. You told me to type "$extract" and "$sh." You weren't supposed to have the dollar sign there, and that's why it confused the hell out of me. It's installing now, so we should be good in a moment.

Thanks for the help guys. But next time, be a little less vague and be more descriptive, because as an almost first-time Linux user I had no idea what the hell to do!

"$" is short for "enter the following line into the terminal". It comes from the last symbol you see when you enter the terminal (for example, root@linux $ YourCommandsAreWrittenHere).

"$" is short for "enter the following line into the terminal". It comes from the last symbol you see when you enter the terminal (for example, root@linux $ YourCommandsAreWrittenHere).

Oh! Well, you coulda told me that >.

I guess you could install stuff from the repository... If you're unfamiliar with it (and I guess you are), go to Applications -> Add/Remove, then select "All open source applications", and search for the program you want (there are a lot of programs in the repository). Then just tick the checkbox and click Apply. Much easier than installing stuff manually, and it takes care of dependencies.

Unreal isn't in any of the repositories that I know. Though it could be.

You know what!? F*CK LINUX!!! I swear to god I have been trying for 30 f*cking minutes just trying to extract one folder to another one!!

"PERMISSION DENIED" "PERMISSION DENIED" It's flipping worse than VISTA!!! Not only could I not change permissions to allow me to drag stuff into the folder, but something I did caused the whole folder to not only be non-writeable, but non-readable too! So I can't even access the damn folder!!!

I could just drag and drop, but NO! You need to be root or enter a password to do nearly anything!!! And I was just trying to install an add-on for Celestia!!! Windows is just drag and drop, Linux is "USE THE TERMINAL FOR EVERYTHING, B!TCH!!!" It's like trying to move something using a mechanical arm and joystick (Linux) instead of just picking the damn thing up with your own hands and moving it (Windows).

Linux might be better in every way, but at least in Windows I don't have to type "sudo mv "" " just to move a file into the root installation folder of a program (in this case, it was /usr/share/celestia/extras).

Not only that, if I capitalize the beginning of a word, the next word is capitalized too! So it looks like "ANd" instead of "And." Seriously! How do you people stand to use this thing? I'm going back to Windows.

Maybe the problem lies in your lack of patience ? Obviously you're not going to learn who to master a new OS in a matter of minutes.

KillerSkaarj, you don't have to use root access everywhere. Just correct ownership and permissions. And do anything in your home folder.
And RTFM more!

If you ask me, use SuSE. It's the most comfortable Linux I know. When using KDE it has almost the same usage like Windows and with it's Yast it has even some sort of "Control Center" to manage apps and almost any needed configuration. Most software can be easily installed with the SuSE download center or the "packman" software repository. SuSE stuff for the OS specific things and Packman for multimedia and other popular stuff (SuSE doesn't contain f.e. DVD encryption and MP3 encryption in my country due legal trouble, but with packman its easy to install without trouble).
This of course doesn't spare you to read things and learn Linux's behavior, it also can't avoid to experience things like above, but its easy to handle for most people because its in Desktop usage pretty similar to windoze, but with all Linux powers to customize it for own purposes.
Ok, new KDE4 is a bit strange in handling at first, but if setting to "Folder View" and "classic start menu" for main usage its easy again.
Anyway, don't stick it that easily, just remember the hours you maybe spent already to clean up windows, search for spyware, killing viruses, setting up again and again windows, rebooting due to unexplainable crashes and and and....
When I started with...I think it was SuSE 5, it took me even days to find out where my CD-Rom drive was, painful time digging for "D", which is nowadays a piece of cake even if not knowing that most distros mount it into /media.
Ok, SuSE is maybe a bit overkill with software and there are distros which are definitely faster, but with 11.2 it takes my laptop with a centrino2 maybe not even 20 seconds to boot up...

Unreal isn't in any of the repositories that I know. Though it could be.

I didn't think about Unreal. But stuff like Wine, etc.

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KillerSkaarj, it's teh securiteh that doesn't allow you do everything like on Windows, where and piece of program can overwrite the system dir without notifying you until it's done.
Take Virut for example, you just need to run one infected file, and it will sneeze over your hard drive, infecting everything it can, and botnet you in a second.

To be honest, I always delete the sudo command cause I guess stuff can run it from itself. I always get root access with "su root" (set root pass with sudo first, then delete sudo).

And lack of patience is not going to take you anywhere... :-/ When I first started with Linux, the installation didn't last for 2 minutes because I somehow succeeded to crash GNOME. Now it's my primary OS. Ok I'm posting this from Windows, but I needed FL Studio and it's like the only app that I use that doesn't work on Linux.

If you ask me, use SuSE. It's the most comfortable Linux I know. When using KDE it has almost the same usage like Windows and with it's Yast it has even some sort of "Control Center" to manage apps and almost any needed configuration. Most software can be easily installed with the SuSE download center or the "packman" software repository.

Exactly! Other distributions aren't as user friendly.

if I capitalize the beginning of a word, the next word is capitalized too! So it looks like "ANd" instead of "And."

I don't follow. Linux is case-sensitive but that's about it.

Also, about permissions: if you don't get some, launch a root konqueror (if on KDE): kdesu konqueror - and then use it for file management. Dolphin has known issues with root user usage. And Konqueror supports drag and drop.

And if you can't find out how to do something, do this: 1. Look at the manual 2. Search Google 3. Ask on the forums. It's really not that difficult.

I tried to change the permissions of the folder, but it kept saying that only root can change the permissions, and that root is the owner of the folder. I searched up how to change the permissions of the folder, but all I got was stuff that didn't make sense, and that when I tried it, it just made things infinitely worse. I even tried logging in as root, but no matter what I did, nothing worked. And I can't be arsed to spend my whole day searching through piles of documentation and trying to make sense of everything just to get the damn OS to let me drag and drop a single folder into another one.

I just wish there was a version of Linux that had the same GUI mechanics as Windows, but with the durability and versatility of Linux. According to Smirf, that's what SuSE is. I'll try it sometime in the future.

sudo chmod 777 yourfolder