How To Install higan on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install higan on Debian 9.
What is higan
higan is:
higan is an emulator for Nintendos SNES, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance. It was formerly called bsnes and the SNES emulation is especially complete and polished.
higan strives to provide the most faithful hardware emulation possible. It focuses on accuracy and clean code, rather than speed and special features. It is meant as a reference emulator to document how the underlying hardware works. As a result the minimum system requirements are high.
There are three profiles that govern the amount of accuracy and required system resources of the SNES emulation. Which profile to use can be set with:
update-alternatives –config higan
There are three methods to install higan 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 higan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install higan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install higan
Install higan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install higan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install higan
Install higan 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 higan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install higan
How To Uninstall higan on Debian 9
To uninstall only the higan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove higan
Uninstall higan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall higan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove higan
Remove higan Configurations and Data
To remove higan configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge higan
Remove higan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove higan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge higan
Dependencies
higan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install higan package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
