Question Install Quake 4 Ubuntu 22.04

[stchman]

I installed the Quake 4 package:

sudo apt install quake4

When I try and run it it tells me that I need to use game-data-packager.

Required data files are missing.

Please use game-data-packager to build and install the data packages for Quake 4.

Typical use of game-data-packager:

game-data-packager -i quake4 [PATH [PATH...]]

Install game data for Quake 4, searching PATH for data files

game-data-packager -d ~/Downloads quake4 [PATH [PATH...]]

Generate game data packages in ~/Downloads to install later

For more details please run "game-data-packager quake4 --help" or see /usr/share/doc/quake4/README.quake4-data or the game-data-packager(6) manual page.

Now the game-datapackager won't let me build the .deb. I've used this package before for Quake 2, Quake 3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Before anyone asks, I actually OWN these games with CD Key as I bought them back in the day so I am not a filthy pirate. I would like to play them on my Linux machines.
I have looked all over and nothing useful.

Thanks.

 

[TerryLaze]

Now the game-datapackager won't let me build the .deb. I've used this package before for Quake 2, Quake 3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Does it give you any error code or any output at all? Can you access the log?
You are basically asking for any reason anything could fail if you don't include at least some error code.

 

[stchman]

I would like to know the proper command to build the .deb for Quake 4. I have all the .pk4 files from my Quake 4 CD copied into a directory.