Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Urban Terror is an open source, multi-player first person shooter game, developed on the Quake III Arena game engine.
The latest version available is Urban Terror 4.2.0.19, which has been recently a while ago. Among others, it comes with a new gametype – Freeze Tag, two new maps: ut4_prominence and ut4_killroom and a New g_starTime CVAR and a lot of bug-fixes. For more information, see the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Urban Terror 4.2.0.19 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu 14.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via the GetDeb repository, installing Urban Terror 4.2.0.19 on Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa and the key to your system, update the local repository index and install the urbanterror package. Like this:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb games" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install urbanterror
Optional, to remove urbanterror, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove urbanterror
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