During my rounds in open-source communities I frequent, I crossed paths with the friendly bunch over at www.ubuntumagazine.net and now it turns out I'm an author at the site! My first order of business was to document the best way to install Nexuiz.

You can view the article here: http://www.ubuntumagazine.net/?p=1984

I hope this helps out our Linux users in using the latest version of Nexuiz. Please let me know if I made any mistakes.

Without reading anything you wrote and being completely oblivious to everything on that page I found it easiest to place the Nexuiz folder wherever the hell I want it and just create a launcher in my games menu leading to either "nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh" or "nexuiz-linux-glx.sh". I also found that I (strangely) got better performance by restricting the app to using just one CPU core by placing this in front of the launcher's command line "schedtool -a 0x1 -e". My installation is located in my home folder in a directory called my games (/home/lee/My Games/Nexuiz) and the command line on my launcher is: schedtool -a 0x1 -e "/home/lee/My Games/Nexuiz/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh"

Hidden in rudeness I suppose you're offering a friendly tip. I wrote the article in accordance with the other installation guides on the site. Which essentially says what you just summarized, however, the article isn't aimed at linux gurus like yourself...

[-z-] wrote:Hidden in rudeness I suppose you're offering a friendly tip. I wrote the article in accordance with the other installation guides on the site. Which essentially says what you just summarized, however, the article isn't aimed at linux gurus like yourself...

lol Wasn't trying to rude or hijack your thread, I was just telling people how I installed the game.

Z , you are a valuable asset and knowledgeable human being .
I am recently trying out linux again on my new pc . i have had horrible luck with many distro's but i think it was due to my old pc . So i installed the latest Ubuntu and have tried other methods of nexuiz installation . New to linux i have found myself confused by those methods . This link seems to be working fine so far . im downloading the dependencies and libs . will return with my results .

glad it's helped you so far. let me know if there is any confusion or errors.

i got this error

grassy@grassy-desktop:~$ cd ~/Desktop
grassy@grassy-desktop:~/Desktop$ mkdir -p ~/.Games
grassy@grassy-desktop:~/Desktop$ unzip nexuiz-251.zip -d ~/.Games
Archive: nexuiz-251.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of nexuiz-251.zip or
nexuiz-251.zip.zip, and cannot find nexuiz-251.zip.ZIP, period.
grassy@grassy-desktop:

sounds like a corrupt archive.

at the terminal enter:

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md5sum nexuiz-251.zip

it should match: 8e945f71a922f1f87ab406bafadde93f

more like the download isn't finished?

Blµb wrote:more like the download isn't finished?

yes, exactly. I thought I had written 'redownload'.

Ok i redownloaded it and installed with no hesitation . it is working fine .

Thank you so much -Z- !

this tutorial was easy and actually fun . I like the icon adding part , it was neat .
being new to linux , this tut was very clear and easy to understand . nice work

glad it helped you. also glad you learned more about linux. I find computing more fun with linux, personally

[-z-] wrote:I find computing more fun with linux, personally

True that.