Urban Terror

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Urban Terror is a popular total conversion/mod based on the Quake 3 
engine. It is a realistic style game similar to Counter Strike. Works 
well already with the Quake 3 engine available in the repository.

Instructions
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# yum install quake3
# wget ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/games/urbanterror/UrbanTerror40_full.zip
(536 MB)
# unzip UrbanTerror40_full.zip
# su
# mv q3ut4/ /usr/share/quake3
# exit
# quake3 +set fs_game q3ut4

Trying to run it from the mod menu will fail with a "hunk alloc" error. 
So don't bother. Let me know if it works for you.

Packaging
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It doesn't allow redistribution. The readme has this gem.

"Urban Terror is distributed free over the Internet and is covered by 
the Quake 3 SDK licence agreement [EULA]. The mod files may not be sold 
[in any form] or distributed on physical media unless with permission 
from iD Software.

For further information on legal use of programs derived from Quake 3
source code, please contact their respective authors.
"

While it may indeed be possible to secure redistribution rights from id 
since they are a very Linux friendly company, we could do something to 
make this easier meanwhile. Create a package called urbanterror which 
depends on the quake3 package and uses autodownloader to download the 
game data, create a menu entry which calls the above command. Should be 
pretty easy to do. Anyone interested?

Rahul