How To Install freedink on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedink on Debian 9. freedink is humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedink on Debian 9.

What is freedink

freedink is:

Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing game, similar to Zelda, made by RTsoft. Besides twisted humor, it includes the actual game editor, allowing players to create hundreds of new adventures called Dink Modules or D-Mods for short.

GNU FreeDink is a new and portable version of the game engine, which runs the original game as well as its D-Mods, with close compatibility, under multiple platforms.

This package is a metapackage to install the game, its data and a front-end to manage game options and D-Mods.

There are three methods to install freedink 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 freedink Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install freedink

Install freedink Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install freedink using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install freedink

Install freedink 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 freedink using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freedink

How To Uninstall freedink on Debian 9

To uninstall only the freedink package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove freedink

Uninstall freedink And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freedink

Remove freedink Configurations and Data

To remove freedink configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freedink

Remove freedink configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freedink

Dependencies

freedink have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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