How To Install rtcw-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw-common on Kali Linux.

What is rtcw-common

rtcw-common is:

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a military- and occult-themed first-person shooter game in a Second World War setting, originally released in 2001. It is a sequel to Wolfenstein 3D, which is also available for Debian (in the wolf4sdl package).

This package contains files shared by the game and the dedicated server. It requires non-distributable game data files from the rtcw-data package, which can be prepared using the game-data-packager tool.

There are three methods to install rtcw-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install rtcw-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rtcw-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rtcw-common

Install rtcw-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rtcw-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rtcw-common

Install rtcw-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install rtcw-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rtcw-common

How To Uninstall rtcw-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rtcw-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rtcw-common

Uninstall rtcw-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rtcw-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rtcw-common

Remove rtcw-common Configurations and Data

To remove rtcw-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rtcw-common

Remove rtcw-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove rtcw-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rtcw-common

Dependencies

rtcw-common have the following dependencies:

• rtcw-data
• libc6

References

• rtcw-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.