How To Install dsda-doom on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dsda-doom
on Debian 12.
What is dsda-doom
dsda-doom is:
This is a fork of prboom+ with many new features, including:
- Heretic, Hexen, MBF21, and Doom-in-Hexen support
- In-game console and scripting
- Full controller support
- Palette-based lightmode for opengl
- Debugging features for testing
- Strict mode for speedrunning
- Various quality of life improvements
- Advanced tools for TASing
- Rewind
DSDA-Doom requires game data to run. Free game data is available in the freedoom package. Commercial game data can be packaged using game-data-packager. DSDA-Doom supports all flavors of Doom, including The Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom as well as Chex(R) Quest, HacX, Freedoom: Phase 1 and Phase 2 and FreeDM.
Additionally, DSDA-Doom supports Heretic and Hexen.
There are three methods to install dsda-doom
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dsda-doom Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dsda-doom
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dsda-doom
Install dsda-doom Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dsda-doom
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dsda-doom
Install dsda-doom 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 dsda-doom
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dsda-doom
How To Uninstall dsda-doom on Debian 12
To uninstall only the dsda-doom
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dsda-doom
Uninstall dsda-doom And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dsda-doom
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dsda-doom
Remove dsda-doom Configurations and Data
To remove dsda-doom
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dsda-doom
Remove dsda-doom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dsda-doom
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dsda-doom
Dependencies
dsda-doom have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdumb1
- libfluidsynth3
- libgcc-s1
- libgl1
- libglu1-mesa
- libmad0
- libportmidi0
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libsdl2-image-2.0-0
- libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libvorbisfile3
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dsda-doom
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.