The console errors look like:Įrror: file/bots/default_c.c line 2: file charsh' not found My thinking behind this is because of the log errors when adding a bot seem too wrong and because my compile from source version does work. I did not look at the code, but it is possible this is a compiler error for the binaries that are on the ioquake3 site for download. Basically, the engine will start and everything will render correctly, but bot's don't load at all. Interestingly, the Linux 64bit version of ioquake3 only kind-of works. Here's an interesting blog entry, where the author explains what he did in order to get it running. You’ll also need various prerequisites to compile like make, gcc, et cetera. Just change the BUILD_CLIENT='0' to BUILD_CLIENT='1' and you can also change the COPYDIR to wherever you’d like the ioquake3 installation to go. You could use this shell script to download and install a version of ioquake3 from git. Unfortunately we don’t currently have an ioquake3 test build for 32bit systems, surprisingly it turns out to be easier to cross-compile a build for 32bit windows under 64bit Linux than to do so for a 32bit Linux! If you have a 64-bit system, the following reaction at the end of that same thread offers another, more convoluted, alternative: I fixed it uninstalling all the ioquake3 packages and installing the quake3 official packages. Just try again later.)Īs I could read in some forums, a lot of Linux users are having the same bug. (Note that for me, the test builds link was down for a while as I was writing this post. This is a known issue with the 1.36 stable release for GNU/Linux x86_64. This seems to be common with the Linux version of ioquake, and in those cases, people suggest trying a test build:

How to install ioquake3