Acquiring Doom3 for Linux
You can download the latest version from [ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom3/linux/ id Software's ftp server]
This package contains only the binary sources for Linux!
Installatin of the Linux binary
./doom3-linux-x.x.xxxx.x86.run
Add the missing files
The following files need to be copied from the win32 install CDs to your base/ directory. by default, /usr/local/games/doom3/base
pak000.pak4 pak001.pak4 pak002.pak4 pak003.pak4 pak004.pak4
Start Doom3
Start Doom3 with the following command:
doom3
Troubleshooting
Can't play online
You need to set your cdkey. Edit the file base/doomkey in your doom3 directory and type in cdkey without the dashes and without the last two numbers. I.e, if your cdkey was 1234-5678-9012-2345-67, you would type in 123456789012345 on the first line of the doomkey file