Ubuntu – Game-package-manager quake 2 install

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On a lubuntu 16.04 xenial machine I'd like to install quake2, more for test than anything.
And then I'd like to install a quake 2 server, but first things first:
I've copied from my windows partition to my lubuntu desktop the old quake 2 game folder, from a windows install.
So on the desktop I have a Quake2 folder, and inside there are: baseq2, rogue, xatrix subfolders.
I've installed quake2 binaries with apt: apt-get install quake2

What I'm trying to do is figure out how to have game-package-manager
make the relative deb files for the full quake2 (baseq2), the
reckoning (rogue), ground zero (xatrix).

Has anyone done it successfully, or does anyone knows the syntax for that?

Best Answer

I just tried this on a virtual Lubuntu machine and it worked.

sudo apt install quake2 game-data-packager

game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-full-data /home/[redacted]/q2/baseq2

This generated "/home/[redacted]/quake2-full-data_44_all.deb" - it did download some stuff, as you mentioned in a comment.

Installed that with gdebi and the game started up fine with /usr/games/quake2

For the expansion packs

game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-groundzero-data /home/[redacted]/q2/rogue

creates quake2-groundzero-data_2.02+44_i386.deb, install this, run with /usr/games/quake2 +set game rogue

game-data-packager quake2 --package quake2-reckoning-data /home/[redacted]/q2/xatrix

creates quake2-reckoning-data_2.03+44_i386.deb, install this, run with /usr/games/quake2 +set game xatrix

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