Tremulous and other Q3 engine based games are missing files and will not start!

[Jussi Schultink]

Binary package hint: tremulous

When loading tremulous, it starts, darklegions splash comes up and then it drops to a tremulous terminal. Please see attached photo.

Have just upgraded from karmic to lucid. Worked fine in karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 28 20:32:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tremulous 1.1.0-4.1build1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-11.15-generic
SourcePackage: tremulous
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic x86_64

[bash (1bash)]

I have exactly the same problems as Jussi above. So this bug is still present as of the 12 April.

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx amd64
Version: tremulous 1.1.0-4.1build1

[Kip Warner (kip)]

Just a note, smokinguns off of getdeb exhibits the same problem.

[antrecu (antrecu-yahoo)]

I have the same issue on ubuntu 10.04 amd 64, tremulous 1.1.0-4.1build1, NVIDIA Driver Version 195.36.15

[Rafal-maj-it (rafal-maj-it)]

The same bug.

Also, same bug hits a (not packaged) game UrbanTerror, also based on same/similar engine, and the solution is to manually install a newer ioq3 engine client.

http://www.www0.org/w/Optimized_executable%3b_builds_of_ioq3_engine_for_urt <-- FIXED CLIENT

information:
http://forums.urbanterror.info/topic/20250-optimized-binary-for-linux-builds-of-ioq3-engine/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433663

Work around for Tremulous is probably to manually install something similar (if you have the official URL then please post).

So, probably tremulous needs repacking with an upgraded client.

[James Tidman (jamestidman)]

I had the same problem in Ubuntu 10.04. The solution for me was to install from the installer on the site <a href="http://tremulous.net/files/">http://tremulous.net/files/</a>, rather than through the package manager.

[Kamil Páral (kamil.paral)]

This has been fixed in Ubuntu 10.10.