How To Install greed on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install greed on Debian 9. greed is curses-based clone of the DOS free-ware game Greed

Introduction

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

What is greed

greed is:

This is a curses-based clone of the DOS free-ware game Greed. The goal of this game is to try to eat as much as possible of the board before munching yourself into a corner.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install greed

Install greed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install greed

Install greed 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 greed using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install greed

How To Uninstall greed on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove greed

Uninstall greed And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove greed

Remove greed Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge greed

Remove greed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge greed

Dependencies

greed have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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