problem installing Wolfenstein Enemy territory

you cand run:

ls -l /usr/local/games

and make a note of the output, you can then change the owner to your user name (assuming you use only one user)

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/games

You will now hav ownership rights to the data and therefore write access.

You could alternatively create a new group, add root and yourself to it, then give the new group, ownersip to all the folder and grat the group full access. This will keep the owner as root which is more secure.

the output was:

total: 0

and after that i got this

bean@bean:~$ sudo chown -R $bean /usr/local/games
[sudo] password for bean:
chown: missing operand after `/usr/local/games'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
bean@bean:~$

no, I gave the full command, $USER is a global variable which gets replaced by your username, so you dont have to worry about who you are logged in as.
Linux is a true multiuser system so provided you have the credentials you can switch to other user names freely. Users don't want to have to think "wait, what user name am I on right now"
So unix and linux have $USER $HOME and other nicety's. Windows has %PROFILE% %ADMIN% %WINDIR% too which are synonymous.

The command is:

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/games

which will translate to

sudo chown -R bean /usr/local/games

in the kernel when executed. Either of the above wiil work.

Is this a linux game ? :)))

i went into some forums for help and i ended screwing it up royally.. i give up

Hi

Any chance of giving us links to the advice you were given? or perhaps tell us what's happened? Maybe someone here can help with each of the different new problems.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games/Native/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein

May just help

You will need to replace

/cdrom

with wherever your CD is mounted, most likely /media/cdrom0

You will also need to change <path to install> to the actual path you wish to use

e.g.

sudo mkdir /usr/share/games/wolfenstein/
sudo mkdir /usr/share/games/wolfenstein/main

ID software kick a lot of ass at supporting Linux, shame many other developers don't.

Doom3 also runs in the same fashion and has its own installer, also made by ID software.

Wow, i was going to install Doom3 in Wine but something about using Windows stuff for fun just makes me shudder. Having it effectively ported to linux sounds superb!!
Thanks AP :))