Installing Nexuiz on Ubuntu Gutsy 64-bit

Posted on April 10, 2008 by probabilityZero

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.

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I'm a rather boring, geeky college student. Most of my time is spent at a computer, reading a book, or sitting in (mostly uninteresting) classes. My hobbies include reading, blogging, creating and running websites, creating amateur video games, arguing incessantly on discussion forums, and buying books on amazon.com because I'm too lazy to go to the library.
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2 Responses to Installing Nexuiz on Ubuntu Gutsy 64-bit

  1. tux says:
    April 12, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    sweet, it worked. thanks!

  2. Anonymous says:
    April 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    i installed with apt-get but i didnt get the map pack for some reason

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