wolfenstein-et/README.md

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

This archive contains all files needed to run Wolfenstein ET 2.60b on Linux. It includes two folders:

One to launch the main game :

• The official game
• et-sdl-sound (enabling sound - fetch from https://web.archive.org/web/20160804014221/http://nullkey.kapsi.fi/et-sdl-sound/)

One to launch a Jaymod server:

• Jaymod 2.2.0
• Omnibot 0.9

Requirements

Wolfenstein ET is built on a 32 bits arch. So, 32 bits librairies must exist to run the game.

# add the i386 architecture
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# do update to fetch i386 librairies
sudo apt update

# install the 32 bits compatible librairies
sudo apt install ia32-libs (mint)
sudo apt install lib32z1 (ubuntu)

# after the installation the following lib must be present
sudo apt install libsdl1.2debian:i386

Installation

NOTE: The installation has been tested on Mint 20.04 | Ubuntu 20/22.04.

• Download the archive

wget http://et.thegux.fr/archives/et_full_linux.tar.gz

• Extract it

tar xzvf et_full_linux.tar.gz
cd wolfenstein-et

• Create the main folders

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/games/enemy-territory
sudo chown 1000 /usr/local/games/enemy-territory && chmod 775 /usr/local/games/enemy-territory

sudo mkdir -p /opt/games/enemy-territory
sudo chown 1000 /opt/games/enemy-territory && chmod 775 /opt/games/enemy-territory

cp -r base/* /usr/local/games/enemy-territory
cp -r server /opt/games/enemy-territory

Launch the game

cd /usr/local/games/enemy-territory
./et-sdl-sound

Enjoy !

NOTE : Some librairies may be missing, you need to install it one by one (test to launch ./et.x86 and see missing libs).

Create a systemd service (server creation only)

In order to launch the server properly, a systemd service is a right solution instead of the serverctl sh script. Todo so :

• put the launch_server.bash wherever you want (ex: /opt/games/enemy-territory/server/linux).
• put the wolfenstein-et.service file in /etc/systemd/system directory (must be root).
• replace <linux_user> and <path_to> placeholders with your configuration (<linux_user> must have rights to exec launch_server.bash).
• enable the service (on reboot the service will autostart).

sudo systemctl enable wolfenstein-et

• start the service

sudo service wolfenstein-et start

• check the service status

sudo service wolfenstein-et status

Settings

More useful informations : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory.

Set screen size in 1920*1080

• Open the player configuration file:

vi $HOME/.etwolf/etmain/profiles/<username>/etconfig.cfg

• Override this settings

seta r_mode          -1      // -1 mean we are using a custom screen resolution
seta r_customwidth   1920    // monitor's width
seta r_customheight  1080    // monitor's height

Common errors

"libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

sudo apt install lib32stdc++6

SDL driver error

------- sound initialization -------
SDL audio driver initializing...
ALSA lib conf.c:3722:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so: libasound_module_conf_pulse.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
SDL_AudioDriverName() = NULL
------------------------------------

You must install the corresponding 32 bits library:

sudo apt install libasound2-plugins:i386

Keyboard inputs does not work

Try moving to Xorg instead of Wayland... To do so, on Ubuntu, logout, click on the Settings icon and select Xorg.