Installing Nexuiz on Ubuntu Gutsy 64-bit

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Nexuiz recently. I have played previous versions, but the newest one looks amazing. Full HDR effects, lots of detail everywhere. If you have a good graphics card, I’d highly recommend you try it out.

Anyway, installation is fairly simple. Nexuiz is in the Ubuntu repositories, but I recommend you get it straight from the Nexuiz site. This is how I did it:

This guide assumes you have the correct graphical drivers configured and working for your pc.

Download both the game and the map pack from the official site. Save them to your home folder (/home/[username])

Open up a terminal and enter the following:

mkdir ~/games
unzip nexuiz-24.zip -d ~/games
unzip nexmappack_r2.zip -d ~/games/Nexuiz

Now, open up your home folder and go to games -> Nexuiz. Find the file named “nexuiz-linux-x86_64-glx” and run it to start the game.

You may need to turn off desktop effects before running it. I generally do my gaming in Fluxbox, since KDE/GNOME + Compiz-fusion is too resource-hungry to keep running while playing a game.