How To Install gnome-robots on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-robots on Debian 9. gnome-robots is improved old BSD robots game

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-robots on Debian 9.

What is gnome-robots

gnome-robots is:

GNOME Robots is a game where you try and avoid a band of marauding robots which are, for no adequately explained reason, trying to kill you. It is based on the text-based robots game which can be found on a number of UNIX systems.

There are three methods to install gnome-robots 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 gnome-robots Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-robots

Install gnome-robots Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnome-robots

Install gnome-robots 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 gnome-robots using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-robots

How To Uninstall gnome-robots on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gnome-robots package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-robots

Uninstall gnome-robots And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-robots

Remove gnome-robots Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-robots

Remove gnome-robots configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-robots

Dependencies

gnome-robots have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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