Oct 28, 2014

Punkbuster ETkey/setup


Punkbuster ETkey/setup




Punkbuster
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (ET),
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RtCW)

Manual installation of Punkbuster

Download the files for you operating system (unfortunality only Windows and Linux at the moment)
>>>>> Windows files <<<<<
>>>>> Linux files <<<<<

>>>>> PB Installer with automatically ETKEY generation <<<<<
if the installer find no etkey file, it will be generated
>>>>> PB Installer for Windows by Harlekin <<<<<
It`s quite easy to use: Simple run the installer, select the folder where your game et.exe is located and start it


Auto – Install for Linux (bash)

You can use the bash script from here to install all needed punkbuster files and also to get an ETKEY if noone is available.
This is the content of the script
#!/bin/bash

## Copyright (C) 2011 Misanthropos - Deploy Mortar!
## pbupdate - for Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory
## combined with ETKEY get script

PBZIP=et_linux.zip
PBHOST=www.etkey.org
PBPATH=~/.etwolf/pb

wget "$PBHOST/$PBZIP" -O ~/$PBZIP

if [ -f $PBZIP ]; then
 unzip ~/$PBZIP -d $PBPATH
 echo "Punkbuster updated."
 exit 0
else
 echo "Punkbuster update FAILED!"
fi

ETKEY=~/.etwolf/etmain/etkey

if [ -f $ETKEY ]; then
 echo $ETKEY already exists!
 exit 0
fi

wget -O etkey.new http://etkey.org/distpb.php 

mv etkey.new $ETKEY

if [ -f $ETKEY ]; then
 echo ETKey generated successfully.
else
 echo Oh oh... ETKey NOT generated!
fi