Tested on:
• Debian-11-bullseye-5.10.0-8-amd64
• Centos-8-4.18.0-amd64
Should work on Ubuntu distributions as well.

This guide is created by "Spike".

1a) Dependencies Installation

First, make sure to have the following dependencies installed:

DEBIAN:

apt update && apt install p7zip unzip libatomic1

CENTOS:

yum install epel-release
yum install p7zip unzip libatomic

While these packages should be enough for running the game on a fresh installed Debian or CentOS, please note that other packages might be missing in your system.

1b) Copying The Files

Decompress the 'TO-AoT-Fixed-Pack-v469c.7z' (version 469c may change) and 'TOFP-LinuxFiles-x64-v3.zip' files

7z x TO-AoT-Fixed-Pack-v469c.7z
unzip TOFP-LinuxFiles-x64-v3.zip

Then, copy the contents of './System' directory into './TacticalOps/TO340/System/'
and './TacticalOps/TO350/System/' directories

cp -r ./System/* ./TacticalOps/TO340/System/
cp -r ./System/* ./TacticalOps/TO350/System/

1c) Running The Game

Now, if you enter any of the './TacticalOps/TO3{4,5}0/System/' directories, you can find the 'TacticalOps.sh' file, a bash script to launch the game.

You will need to add 'execution' permissions to this script, as following

chmod +x TacticalOps.sh

The last command should only be done once. Then, you may launch the game by executing

./TacticalOps.sh

1d) Issues

NOTE: When following any of the recommendations below, please be sure that you know what you are doing.

Expose missing dependencies

ldd * 2> /dev/null | grep found

Find which package provides $FILE

apt-file find $FILE

Debug library dependencies

LD_DEBUG=libs ./TacticalOps.sh

SUCCESFULLY TESTED ON DEBIAN SYSTEMS!
CURRENTLY NOT WORKING ON CENTOS!

2a) Dependencies Installation

In order to execute the 32bit binaries on a 64bit system, you will need to add the i386 arch and install i386 packages.

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install libc6-i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libunwind8:i386 libatomic1:i386 \
libfreetype:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libgl1:i386

You will also need the '7z' and 'unzip' packages:

apt install p7zip unzip libatomic1

2b), 2c), 2d) Steps are similar to 1b), 1c) and 1d), respectively.

Please make sure to unzip the 32bit 'System' directory, instead: unzip TOFP-LinuxFiles-x86-v3.zip

While the Tactical Ops Game Client uses the 'ut-bin' binaries, the Tactical Ops Server relies in the 'ucc-bin' file.

This binary can be found in both 32bit and 64bit versions.

Running 'ucc-bin' requires only few libraries, compared to 'ut-bin'.

The dependencies of 'ucc-bin' can be installed both in Debian and CentOS as described below.

3a) Running 64bit 'ucc-bin'

DEBIAN:

# Check first if 'ucc-bin' runs without installing new packages.
# If not working, check if the following packages are installed:
#                       libc6 libstdc++

CENTOS:

# Check first if 'ucc-bin' runs without installing new packages.
# If not working, check if the following packages are installed:
#                    libgcc glibc libstdc++

3b) Running 32bit 'ucc-bin'

DEBIAN:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install libc6-i386 libstdc++6:i386

CENTOS:

yum install libgcc.i686 glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686