QUAKE-SERVER(6)

💖 QUAKE-SERVER 💖 (section 6, the Games Manual, bestie)

okay so like. this is the manual page for quake-server, and it lives in section 6 of the manual, which is where the games hang out. 🎮

✨ NAME ✨

quake-server — the dedicated server for Quake, no cap

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

quake-server [WRAPPER-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-COMMANDS]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this page documents the quake-server command, briefly. it's giving "quick intro," and that's the vibe. 💅

Quake is a super popular first-person shooter that dropped way back in 1996, released by iD Software — literal gaming royalty, we have to stan. 👑 and this wrapper script? it launches the Quake dedicated server. that's its whole job and it does it.

now, the game data does not come included, bestie. it has to be installed separately using the game-data-packager program, and by default the wrapper goes looking for it at /usr/share/games/quake. so if things are missing, that's the first place to check. 🙈

this wrapper script accepts the two common GNU-style options for getting info about the program (they're down in OPTIONS, keep scrolling 🫶). any further arguments get passed to the engine unmodified — the wrapper does not touch them, does not editorialize, does not even look at them funny.

def go consult the engine documentation for full details, but here's the tea most engines support a syntax where engine switches are prefixed with a minus sign, and you can give console commands by prefixing with a plus sign. see the examples section for some common cases. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

these are the ones accepted for WRAPPER-OPTIONS up in the synopsis:

• -h, --help — show a summary of options. the "help me bestie" button.
• -v, --version — show the version of the program. the "who even are you" button.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• quake(6)
• quakespasm(6)
• game-data-packager(6)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page, and the Quake wrapper script, were written by David Banks and Simon McVittie for the Debian project (and may be used by others). absolute icons, protecting us all. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's dated 2011-06-22 and it comes from the Games Manual section of the Debian QUAKE-SERVER(6) page. mwah. 💅✨