How To Install games-platform on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-platform
on Debian 11.
What is games-platform
games-platform is:
This metapackage will install platform games.
There are three methods to install games-platform
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install games-platform Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install games-platform
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install games-platform
Install games-platform Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install games-platform
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install games-platform
Install games-platform 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 games-platform
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install games-platform
How To Uninstall games-platform on Debian 11
To uninstall only the games-platform
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove games-platform
Uninstall games-platform And Its Dependencies
To uninstall games-platform
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-platform
Remove games-platform Configurations and Data
To remove games-platform
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge games-platform
Remove games-platform configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove games-platform
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-platform
Dependencies
games-platform have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-platform
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.