How To Install rtcw on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw on Kali Linux. rtcw is game engine for Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rtcw

How To Uninstall rtcw on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rtcw

Remove rtcw Configurations and Data

To remove rtcw configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

References

Summary

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