APT repository

Prebuilt Q2PRO packages are available for the stable Debian distribution for i386 and amd64 architectures. Built in Debian 5.0 ‘Lenny’ environment, these packages are expected to install in testing/unstable branches as well.

In order to get Q2PRO repository contents automatically managed by APT, add the following lines into your /etc/apt/sources.list file (you need root privileges for this):

deb http://skuller.net/debian/ lenny q2pro
deb-src http://skuller.net/debian/ lenny q2pro

Users of Secure APT also need to import the repository signing key:

$ wget -q -O - http://skuller.net/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -

Finally, run the following commands to install or upgrade Q2PRO:

$ aptitude update
$ aptitude install q2pro-client   # install the graphical client
$ aptitude install q2pro-server   # install the dedicated server

Of course, it is also possible to download the individual packages manually and install them using dpkg -i command.

Please note that Q2PRO packages above are not providing any game media files for Quake 2 like textures and maps. You have to install them yourself, otherwise graphical client won't run.

By default only base Quake 2 game library is installed, which provides the single player campaign (not quite useful for Q2PRO) and a very limited deathmatch mode. Thus, you will probably want to install some additional game mods.

Right now, two open source multiplayer mods configured for use with Q2PRO server are also packaged: OpenTDM and OpenFFA. Run the following commands to install them:

$ aptitude install q2pro-opentdm   # install OpenTDM
$ aptitude install q2pro-openffa   # install OpenFFA

Then, run q2pro or q2proded with +set game opentdm or +set game openffa options.