I did get Doom going on my Vector system (using PrBoom). Make sure you have the package rpm2tgz installed on your system via GSlapt.
I did the following:
- Downloaded an rpm file for PrBoom (2.5.0-5.fc15.i686). Fedora PrBoom 2.5.0-5 worked. The preceding link is for an x86 system. For x86-64, try PrBoom (2.5.0-5.fc15.x86_64) --> I assume this would work, though I haven't tried this one.
- Then ran the command rpm2tgz on it
- Then right-clicked on the resulting file (prboom-2.5.0-5.fc15.i686.tgz) from within the file manager (Thunar), and selected "Install package" from the menu choices.
- Then downloaded a wad file from http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/download.html (I chose the "Complete IWAD", which gave me freedoom-iwad-latest.zip -- decompress this and find the wad file -- in this case, "doom2.wad")
- Then to the directory /usr/local/share I added, via root with the "mkdir" command, two additional directories, those being "games" and then within this new directory, another one called "doom" (resulting in the directory /usr/local/share/games/doom). This is from what is instructed here for PRBoom (see "Getting a Doom IWAD"). This is only necessary if these directories don't already exist, which on my system they did not.
- Then copied the wad file (in this case, "doom2.wad") to /usr/local/share/games/doom
- Then ran the command "chmod 0755" on the wad file ("doom2.wad") using root
- Then, as regular user, you should be able to run a game of Doom using the command "prboom"
Custom wads can be used too (IE, like some of the ones that are found
here). Just use the following command:
prboom -iwad doom2.wad -file
custom.wadNote, the location of the custom.wad need not be in the same directory as the doom2.wad. It can be in your user's directory (the command must properly give the location of the file (aka custom.wad) though).
If you would like to add music to Doom as well, see the next post.
Let me know if there are any issues.
