How to install rtcw on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?
In this article we are going to learn the commands and steps to install rtcw package on Ubuntu 16.10.
Quick installation of rtcw:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: rtcw
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install rtcw
Package Details | |
| Package: | rtcw |
| Version: | 1.42d+dfsg1-3 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/ |
| Description: | game engine for Return to Castle Wolfenstein 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. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | multiverse/games |
How to install rtcw on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If rtcw is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L rtcw' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L rtcw dpkg-query: package 'rtcw' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing rtcw:
After system update use the following command to install rtcw:
sudo apt-get install rtcw
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove rtcw from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the rtcw from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the rtcw following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove rtcw
Following command is used to remove the rtcw package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove rtcw
This will remove rtcw and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing rtcw with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge rtcw
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove rtcw
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with rtcw package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.