How To Install inform6-library on Debian 10

Learn how to install inform6-library on Debian 10 with this tutorial. inform6-library is Inform 6 interactive fiction language ?? standard library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inform6-library on Debian 10.

What is inform6-library

inform6-library is:

Inform 6 is an object-oriented language for writing interactive fiction, also known as ??text adventures?? or ??adventure games??.

As an interactive fiction developer, you create Inform 6 source code defining the story. Then compile from source code to a ??story file??. The resulting story files are highly portable, with interpreters available for many different platforms.

This package installs:

  • The Inform 6 standard library.

There are three methods to install inform6-library on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install inform6-library Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install inform6-library using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install inform6-library

Install inform6-library Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install inform6-library using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install inform6-library

Install inform6-library 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 inform6-library using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inform6-library

How To Uninstall inform6-library on Debian 10

To uninstall only the inform6-library package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove inform6-library

Uninstall inform6-library And Its Dependencies

To uninstall inform6-library and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inform6-library

Remove inform6-library Configurations and Data

To remove inform6-library configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge inform6-library

Remove inform6-library configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove inform6-library configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inform6-library

Dependencies

inform6-library have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inform6-library package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.