Issues with Ubuntu modding. (Fixed)

[Kyduh]

Good day gentlemen. I run Tremulous on Ubuntu. I was concerned about my default installation having no options menu, so I installed the volt HUD, which I am very pleased with. In order to do this I had to run Nautilus via the "sudo" command in the terminal, since users do not by default have the permission to modify system files. I attempted several times to run the install function via the Tremulous terminal and found myself unable to do so. I remedied this by running Tremulous as the root user (again, "sudo"), which I supposed allowed me to access the files I had moved. This worked, however, in order to run tremulous now I must do so from the terminal as root instead of being able to access it via my applications shortcut. I attempted to remedy this by changing the command line to include sudo. I can only assume this does not work because I cannot enter my password this way. How can I remedy this?

[kevlarman]

you shouldn't modify any system files to install a hud, go back and install it properly (although you probably screwed the permissions on your ~/.tremulous by running it with sudo, so you'll have to chown -R it back to your user)

[Kyduh]

The instructions said to put it in the root folder. I could not add files to the root folder without using sudo

What is the "proper" way to install it if not the mods instructions?

[David]

Copy the files to ~/.tremulous/base/ui/ and then exec its config / set the settings it tells you.
Where volt's instructions say "base folder" they are refering to ~/.tremulous/base/

Run the following to allow you to run it as non-root again:
sudo chown -R $UID:$GROUPS ~/.tremulous
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/games/tremulous /usr/share/games/tremulous
sudo chmod -R a=rX,u+w /usr/games/tremulous /usr/share/games/tremulous

Where did you put the files?

[Kyduh]

Thank you good sir, that fixed my problem. Back to playing

Also, I put the files here:~/.tremulous/base/ui/
As per the instructions.