How To Install rtcw on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw on Debian 12.
What is rtcw
rtcw 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 the iortcw game engines for the single-player campaign and multiplayer, based on ioquake3 and the GPL source releases of RTCW.
For security reasons, this version has been modified to prevent native executable code from being unpacked from game packages (PK3 files). Some game modifications will not work as a result of this change.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein requires non-distributable game data files in the rtcw-data package, prepared using the game-data-packager tool.
There are three methods to install rtcw on Debian 12. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rtcw
Install rtcw Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rtcw using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rtcw
Install rtcw Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rtcw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rtcw
How To Uninstall rtcw on Debian 12
To uninstall only the rtcw package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rtcw
Uninstall rtcw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rtcw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rtcw
Remove rtcw Configurations and Data
To remove rtcw configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rtcw
Remove rtcw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rtcw configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rtcw
Dependencies
rtcw have the following dependencies:
- rtcw-common
- libc6
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libfreetype6
- libgcc-s1
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libopenal1
- libopus0
- libopusfile0
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libvorbisfile3
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
