I found that when using Linux, the client file names are case sensitive!
In order to get the game started I had to do the following ::
mv layo_final1_V3.hak layo_final1_v3.hak
mv layo_final2_V3.hak layo_final2_v3.hak
mv layo_placeV3.hak layo_placev3.hak
mv layo_tilesBV3.hak layo_tilesbv3.hak
mv layo_miscV3.hak layo_miscv3.hak
mv layo_controlV3r6.hak layo_controlv3r6.hak
the people in IRC helped me immensely !!