diff --git a/misc/linux/server_compile.sh b/misc/linux/server_compile.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+localPATH=`pwd`
+export BUILD_CLIENT="0"
+export BUILD_SERVER="1"
+export USE_CURL="1"
+export USE_CODEC_OPUS="1"
+export USE_VOIP="1"
+export COPYDIR="~/ioquake3"
+IOQ3REMOTE="https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3.git"
+IOQ3LOCAL="/tmp/ioquake3compile"
+JOPTS="-j2" 
+echo "This process requires you to have the following installed through your distribution: \n make\n git\n and all of the ioquake3 dependencies necessary for an ioquake3 server. \n If you do not have the necessary dependencies this script will bail out. \n Please post a message to http://community.ioquake.org/ asking for help and include whatever error messages you received during the compile phase. \n Please edit this script. Inside you will find a COPYDIR variable you can alter to change where ioquake3 will be installed to."
+while true; do
+        read -p "Are you ready to compile ioquake3 in the $IOQ3LOCAL directory, and have it installed into $COPYDIR?" yn
+case $yn in
+        [Yy]* )
+if  [ -x "$(command -v git)" ] && [ -x "$(command -v make)" ] ; then
+        git clone $IOQ3REMOTE $IOQ3LOCAL && cd $IOQ3LOCAL && make $JOPTS && make copyfiles && cd $localPATH && rm -rf $IOQ3LOCAL
+fi ;;   
+        [Nn]* ) exit;;
+        * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
+esac
+done
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diff --git a/misc/linux/start_server.sh b/misc/linux/start_server.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+echo "Edit this script to change the path to ioquake3's dedicated server executable and which binary if you aren't on x86_64.\n Set the sv_dlURL setting to a url like http://yoursite.com/ioquake3_path for ioquake3 clients to download extra data"
+~/ioquake3/ioq3ded.x86_64 +set dedicated 2 +set sv_allowDownload 1 +set sv_dlURL "" +set com_hunkmegs 64