Package Details: etqw 1.5-6

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/etqw.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: etqw
Description: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. You need the retail DVD to play.
Upstream URL: https://www.splashdamage.com/games/enemy-territory-quake-wars/
Licenses: custom
Conflicts: bin32-etqw
Submitter: Slash
Maintainer: Slash
Last Packager: Slash
Votes: 29
Popularity: 0.000002
First Submitted: 2007-10-21 00:09 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-09-11 01:47 (UTC)

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Slash commented on 2026-09-11 01:53 (UTC)

The libjpeg dependencies were already fixed in 2024 (with lib32-libjpeg-turbo). The lines you are referring to are for i686 Arch Linux depends_i686=(), which stopped being officially supported in 2017, so I removed it from the PKGBUILD.

dreieck commented on 2026-09-05 09:25 (UTC)

depends needs to be changed (libjpeg):

Can you please change

  • dependendy libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo (any maybe existing make dependency libjpeg needs also to be changed to libjpeg-turbo),
    or maybe more elaboreate,
  • dependencies libjpeg to libjpeg.so AND add make dependency libjpeg-turbo?

Reason: Arch Linux does not have libjpeg anymore, and libjpeg-turbo stopped to declare libjpeg in it's provides array.

Regards and thanks for maintaining!

kIERO commented on 2025-06-24 23:33 (UTC)

The mouse didn't work when using launching via 

/opt/etqw/etqw

So I used the below to launch it and the mouse and the game worked fine.

/opt/etqw/etqw-rthread

If this is a general issue, the file 'etqw.desktop' should be updated.

InFerNo commented on 2024-12-20 20:50 (UTC)

I was looking into the issue that causes the last letter of text in ETQW to be cut off.

For linux players: I just noticed glibc has a build-time configure option (--disable-multi-arch) that stops it using the functions that cause all the text to get cut off in-game without any hacky patches required, and I think Fedora enables it by default for 32-bit (and it's an option on Gentoo). I've edited the build script I posted a while ago to use it if you need to do a build yourself: https://pastebin.com/MGK4ant9

This suggestion was made in a Discord channel in 2021. Is this something that could be built for ETQW only, by adding the library to the ETQW folder and linking to it? Or does this need to be a system-wide thing?

jmsq commented on 2024-11-06 20:54 (UTC)

Easiest is probably to uninstall etqw, upgrade, then reinstall etqw as the latest release should fix this.

InFerNo commented on 2024-11-06 20:52 (UTC) (edited on 2024-11-06 20:52 (UTC) by InFerNo)

I'm getting the following now that I'm trying to update my system:


:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing lib32-libjpeg-turbo (3.0.4-2) breaks dependency 'lib32-libjpeg' required by etqw

What's the best course of action here?

Erus_Iluvatar commented on 2024-09-21 16:17 (UTC)

Instead of a private mirror, it looks like upstream still provides the .run file at https://www.splashdamage.com/games/enemy-territory-quake-wars/

zan commented on 2016-06-06 03:51 (UTC)

If you are getting the classic "libGL error: unable to load driver" with etqw, do what you do with Steam and delete libgcc_s.so.1 and libstdc++.so.6 from the /opt/etqw directory so SDL uses the native libraries and it should work (it at least does for me).

EndlessEden commented on 2016-01-20 05:23 (UTC) (edited on 2016-01-20 05:29 (UTC) by EndlessEden)

few more sources. http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/gentoo/distfiles/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run http://www.fileprophets.com/planetquakewars/Linuxclient//ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run" http://ftp.jeuxlinux.fr/files/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run" more listed here > http://www.filewatcher.com/_/?q=ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run (tested about 20% of them, most of them are gentoo mirrors) --- Also, add optional for steam's version for data files.

Gently commented on 2014-04-08 12:12 (UTC)

Rebuild package: change log: * Added-dependency: etqw-data * tidyup aur/etqw | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3Ad-VEtVXFZG5aS0dES3JKc3M/edit?usp=sharing | etqw-1.5.5.src.tar.gz

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