# Newbye question defrag on Linux

**URL:** <https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/newbye-question-defrag-on-linux/2020>\
**Category:** ioquake3\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/newbye-question-defrag-on-linux/2020 "2025-02-26T22:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![twoony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@twoony](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/twoony)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/newbye-question-defrag-on-linux/2020/1 "2025-02-26T22:39:49Z")

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Hi,  
One day I came across a youtube video of q3defrag with a map called “bug100” and I tried to install ioquake with defrag on Linux. Well, I have a “defrag” directory, I got the “bug100” map, I put it in various places but I can’t load it from the defrag mod when we launch Q3. Sorry if this question is stupid, but any help will be nice. THANKS !

PS: in my install, I can play q3 and q3arena, but when I load the defrag mod, it says that there is no map.

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**Author:** ![twoony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@twoony](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/twoony)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/newbye-question-defrag-on-linux/2020/3 "2025-03-02T21:46:32Z")

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Wow! Thanks for your efforts and this comprehensive answer. I’ll look at all this step by step and let you know if it works (and I think your explanations will solve my problem, because I already have some defrag maps that work, so I must have forgotten something).

Cheers

Twoony