UPDATE [20080901] - In -current OpenBSD, work is underway to port openarena (itself an ioquake3 port) for native Quake 3 (alike) gameplay under OpenBSD. Openarena comes complete with full (free) game content but its ioquake3 engine can run the original Quake 3 and missionpack data just fine. When this porting work is finished (ie, the port is imported into the OpenBSD cvs repository), I will update this page with instructions on how to setup a native server and a client on OpenBSD.

Steps to installing a dedicated Quake 3 server on OpenBSD-3.2beta (20021003 snapshot)

!!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!!

These instructions apply to i386 ONLY ! The dedicated Quake 3 Arena server binary is just that : a binary. This binary only runs on i386, dont bother trying the following on any other arch.

Requirements :

• A recent OpenBSD-i386 machine (don't know how recent)
• A GENERIC kernel (with OPTION COMPAT_LINUX, this may or may not work with your personal kernel config)
• A ports tree extracted in /usr/ports
• Sufficient diskspace (I have 1.4 GB for Quake 3 Arena and Team Arena and some add-ons, YMMV)
• Original Quake 3 files (on CD-ROM or another box)
• FTP access to the internet
• Optional : Orignal Team Arena files (on CD-ROM or another box)
• Optional : Add-on PK3-files for extra models/arenas/bots etc.
• Optional : /usr/ports/misc/screen installed for running a server on boot

Steps :

1. Install the Red Hat emulation libraries

   	cd /usr/ports/emulators/redhat/base && make install
   

   Note that it will take a considerable amount of time to download all rpm's. You could try installing a package to save some time. Also, since OpenBSD 3.4, all binary compatibility is enabled or disabled through a sysctl(8). To enable the use of Linux binaries use :

   	sysctl kern.emul.linux=1
   

   This can be set permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf, see the manpage (sysctl.conf(5)) for more info.

2. Create a directory to store all this nonsense

   	mkdir -p /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3 && cd /usr/local/games/quake3
   

3. Download the latest Quake 3 Arena pointrelease for Linux (as of this writing 1.32)

   	ftp -a ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run -o q3.bin
   

   Note : Any mirror will do, this is the official iD Software FTP server. Just make sure you get the file. This version has a filesize of 30973557 and the MD5 checksum should be 5c4853976224e6f3d1c815075392f3d9. Please note that iD may release other, newer, versions in time. These instructions may be incorrect for newer versions. In such a case, try to find out how to continue from the steps below or drop me an e-mail and I'll update this document.

4. Copy the original pak0.pk3 file to the baseq3/ directory
   • If you have the Q3A/windows CD-ROM mounted on /mnt :

     	cp /mnt/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/
     

   • If you have the Q3A/Linux CD-ROM mounted on ${PATH_TO_Q3ACD} :

     	cp /mnt/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/
     

   • If you have the files on your Windows or Linux game-machine simply (S)FTP, SCP or otherwise transfer the file over to your OpenBSD box (put it in baseq3/)
5. Copy the Team Arena pakfile to the missionpack directory (OPTIONAL)
   • If you have the Team Arena CD-ROM mounted on /mnt :

     	mkdir missionpack; cp /mnt/Setup/missionpack/pak0.pk3 missionpack/
     

   • If you have the files on your Windows or Linux game-machine simply (S)FTP, SCP or otherwise transfer the file over to your OpenBSD box (put it in missionpack/)
6. Extract the server binary and the updated pk3-files

   	mkdir tmp; tail -n +$(head -n 2 q3.bin|grep skip|cut -f2 -d'=') q3.bin|tar xvvzf - -C tmp
   

7. Copy the gameserver binary and the updated pk3-files to their respective destination directories and clean up behind you

   	mv tmp/bin/x86/q3ded .; mv tmp/baseq3/pak?.pk3 baseq3/; mv tmp/missionpack/pak?.pk3 missionpack/; rm -rf tmp q3.bin
   

8. Copy any additional pk3 files (skins/models/levels etc.) to the baseq3/ directory (OPTIONAL)
9. Configure your Quake 3 Arena server (links to some example configuration files)
10. Start the Quake 3 server by hand or automagically on boot :
    • By hand :

      	q3ded +exec <your_config_file_here>
      

    • Automagically on boot (requires /usr/ports/misc/screen and write access to /etc/rc.local) :

      	echo '/usr/bin/su <username> -c "cd /usr/local/games/quake3 && /usr/local/bin/screen -d -m ./q3ded +exec <your_config_file_here>"' >> /etc/rc.local
      

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