LokiInstaller
What is the Loki-Installer?
The Loki-Installer comes from the company Loki! They have ported many games to Linux and have written installers for them. Nowadays many games from [http://liflg.org/ liflg.org] get distributed with the Loki-Iinstaller.
Get the Loki-Installer
The Loki-Installer is normally a part of the installer of a game. You can get the Loki-Updater and Loki-Uninstaller, from [http://liflg.org/ liflg.org].
Install Loki-Updater
sudo sh loki_update-full-1.0.13-x86.run
Install Loki-Uninstaller
sudo sh loki_uninstall-full-1.0.3-x86.run
With the Loki-Updater you can easily update the games. With the Uninstaller you can easily uninstall the games.
How to install a game with Loki-Installer
In general it's a shellscript and you install it with the following command:
./game-version.run
If you get "trap" error message, try it with:
/bin/bash game-version.run
If you want to install games from CD, with mulitple CD's, it's better to copy the installer to the harddisk and start it fromt there.
If a games doesn't find the CD you can specify it with the following command:
export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cdrom/
Credits: [http://www.ubuntu-de.org/wiki/spiele:loki UbuntuUsers.de]