ioquake3

The Quake 3 engine is open source, this does not mean that Quake III: Arena the game is free. You must purchase the game to use the data, or make your own game!

Get ioquake3

There are three methods of installation. The preferred way is to use an official installer. Note that just as before, you can use a Quake 3: Arena CD-ROM from any version of Quake 3 (Windows, Linux, Gold, etc) to get the needed pak0.pk3.

If you want the absolute latest ioquake3 technology, then check out how to build it from source.

We have provided installers for the most popular platforms ioquake3 supports. These have been tested, and if they do not work you can report bugs to us about them.

• Mac OS X (Universal Binary)

  Provides latest patch pk3 data from id. You only need to copy the pak0.pk3 file from your legal Quake 3 CD-ROM to complete the installation process.

  Installation instructions are in the ReadMe.rtf included in the dmg.

  
  Download for Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 39MB.
  MD5: ce2da71d4796ace4257e8cfe59395097

  Built from Subversion 1.34 branch (revision 892).
  

  Thanks to Tony J. White.

• Windows (x86)

  Provides latest patch pk3 data from id. You need to copy your pak0.pk3 from the CD-ROM when the installation process is completed.

  
  Download for Windows x86, 26MB.
  MD5: 170ec9116c935a02e92b880fe2699887

  Built from Subversion
  1.34 branch (revision 993).

  Thanks to Philip Nelson.

• Linux (x86, x86_64, ppc)

  Execute the .run file with something like sh ioquake3-version_etc.run

  Provides latest patch pk3 data from id. This installer also has an option to install the required pak0.pk3 file from the Quake 3 CD-ROM.

  
  Download for Linux (x86, x86_64, ppc), 38MB.
  MD5: 70e88f1110928538b4ba066569e17068
  

  Built from Subversion
  1.34 branch (revision 989).

  Thanks to Thilo Schulz.

  YUM repository for RPM based distributions.

  Thanks to Ludwig Nussel.

• Solaris (SPARC and i86pc packages)

  Provides latest patch pk3 data from id and quake3 Demo pak0.pk3 in a separate package.

  You only need to copy the pak0.pk3 file from your legal Quake 3 CD-ROM to complete the installation process.

  Installation instructions: as root, run:

  pkgadd -d ioquake3d-1.34-REV-ARCH.pkg (Data files)

  pkgadd -d ioquake3-1.34-REV-ARCH.pkg (Binaries).

  
  Download for Solaris (i386, pkg format) Binaries, 4MB.
  MD5: ce14d5101fc57953638e1d5d323e5363
  
  Download for Solaris (i386, pkg format) Data Files, 72MB.
  MD5: 471b2006f7a972090ac1dd77df49536e

  
  Download for Solaris (SPARC, pkg format) Binaries, 7MB.
  MD5:\ 575901458a5330040852dc29044463bb
  
  Download for Solaris (SPARC, pkg format) Data Files, 72MB.
  MD5: 3e7d63e2669c15c1bd580f73d2c7b89f
  Built from Subversion
  1.34 branch (revision 995).
  

  Thanks to Vincent S. Cojot.

Unofficial installers:

If you’re lucky your Operating System provider or someone else using it may have already done all of the work for you. Please report problems with these to those who are guilty.

• Ubuntu

  • Packages for Ubuntu Linux. These are intended for Ubuntu Breezy.

  To install these, as root run dpkg -i package.deb.

  There are also i686 binaries built on Ubuntu made by Pascal de Bruijn. Untar this into /opt/ or where ever you keep weird isolated installs. There is a decent chance these will work on most distributions, these are not .debs.

• Fedora Core, RHEL

  Ed “Sketch” Byrne has been so kind as to provide i386 RPMs for Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, and RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. Be sure to read his Readme to learn how to install it.

• Gentoo

  Gentoo users can just emerge quake3 to get a recent snapshot of our Subversion repository.