Talk:Doom

No music for doomretro in trouble shooting section

Latest comment: 13 March1 comment1 person in discussion

The package "doomretro" from the extra repository does not support music out of the box for the 'doom.wad' as well as both 'freedoom.wad' s for wayland (I haven't checked for X11), it requires the "soundfont-fluid" package to be installed as well as the environmental variable `SDL_SOUNDFONTS=/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2` to be set [1]. This has been as issue in the upstream for quite some time. [2]

I am really not sure if it belongs to the troubleshooting section and I haven't checked in the provided links in the troubleshooting sections for solutions but, I think there should be some guidance (or atleast a small note) on the main doom page for newbies like me.

I would really prefer other solutions if possible as the package "soundfont-fluid" is really heavy for the purpose of just playing music and I am not sure what the optional dependency "timidity++" does.

Thank you for your time. Arvxndrana (talk) 05:25, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply