How To Install rtcw-server on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw-server on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rtcw-server
rtcw-server 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 dedicated server for multiplayer, based on ioquake3 and the GPL source releases of RTCW. It also contains the init script and systemd unit to start the RTCW server, with support for multiple server instances under systemd.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein requires non-distributable game data files from the rtcw-data package, prepared using the game-data-packager tool.
There are three methods to install rtcw-server on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-server 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-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rtcw-server
Install rtcw-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rtcw-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rtcw-server
Install rtcw-server 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rtcw-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rtcw-server
How To Uninstall rtcw-server on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rtcw-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rtcw-server
Uninstall rtcw-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rtcw-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rtcw-server
Remove rtcw-server Configurations and Data
To remove rtcw-server configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rtcw-server
Remove rtcw-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rtcw-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rtcw-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtcw-server package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
