How To Install openbve-data on Debian 10

Learn how to install openbve-data on Debian 10 with this tutorial. openbve-data is realistic 3D train/railway simulator (GUI icons and data)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openbve-data on Debian 10.

What is openbve-data

openbve-data is:

OpenBVE is a public domain railway/train simulator backwards compatible with existing ‘BVE Trainsim’ train and route datafiles.

This package contains the icons, keyboard settings, images and bootstrap parameters not distributed in the openbve source distribution.

For the program itself, install the ‘openbve’ package.

There are three methods to install openbve-data 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 openbve-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openbve-data

Install openbve-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openbve-data

Install openbve-data 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 openbve-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openbve-data

How To Uninstall openbve-data on Debian 10

To uninstall only the openbve-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openbve-data

Uninstall openbve-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openbve-data

Remove openbve-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge openbve-data

Remove openbve-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openbve-data

Dependencies

openbve-data have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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