Guide to install UT2003

#Install the files

mkdir ~/Games/ut2003
...
sudo mount -o loop CDx.iso /mount/cdrom
sudo cp -R /mount/cdrom/* ~/Games/ut2003/

#Run update script

This update script will update ut2003 and install the launcher and the ucc tool

linux32 ./ut2003_2225beta3-multilanguage.update.run --target /absolute/path/ut2003/

#CD Key

Put your cd key in a file

echo XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX >> ut2003/System/cdkey

#Decompress .uz2 files

You need to decompress .uz2 files using ucc tool

for i in ../**/*.uz2 ; do ./ucc-bin decompress $i ; done

#libstdc++.so.5

If you get errors like

./ut2003-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libstdc++5 package

##Under 32bits (not tested)

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

##Under 64bits

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5:i386

#Configure Render Device

If you get errors like

Can't find file for package 'WinDrv'

In System/UT2003.ini and System/User.ini replace

RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

by

;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

and

ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
;ViewportManager=SDLDrv.SDLClient

by

;ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
ViewportManager=SDLDrv.SDLClient

#Bad or no sound

If you get errors like

open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory

Run the game with padsp:

padsp ./ut2003-bin

#ERROR: ld.so: with padsp

If you are using 64-bit system, you might still get no sound. The startup may show the following error when using padsp:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

To solve this, install the 32-bit version if not already installed:

sudo apt-get install libpulsedsp:i386

Then, copy the padsp script to a local (or global) padsp32 file and edit the lines that set the LD_PRELOAD variable to point to the 32-bit version of the library (use the locate command). Example:

...
if [ x"$LD_PRELOAD" eq x ] ; then
  LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so"
else
  LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so"
fi
...

Run the game with padsp32:

padsp32 ./ut2003-bin

#Important

ut2003 creates ~/.ut2003 directory