How To Install crossfire-maps on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-maps on Debian 9. crossfire-maps is Standard set of maps for crossfire

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-maps on Debian 9.

What is crossfire-maps

crossfire-maps is:

Maps for use with crossfire-server or crossfire-edit.

You don’t need this package if you are running only the client.

Note that installing maps will restart crossfire-server, if it is installed and running.

There are three methods to install crossfire-maps on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install crossfire-maps Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-maps using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install crossfire-maps

Install crossfire-maps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-maps using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crossfire-maps

Install crossfire-maps Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-maps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crossfire-maps

How To Uninstall crossfire-maps on Debian 9

To uninstall only the crossfire-maps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crossfire-maps

Uninstall crossfire-maps And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crossfire-maps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossfire-maps

Remove crossfire-maps Configurations and Data

To remove crossfire-maps configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crossfire-maps

Remove crossfire-maps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove crossfire-maps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossfire-maps

Dependencies

crossfire-maps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-maps package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.