How To Install visualboyadvance-gtk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance-gtk on Debian 9.
What is visualboyadvance-gtk
visualboyadvance-gtk is:
VisualBoyAdvance is a Game Boy Advance emulator that works with many ROMs that are publically available. It features save states (like those that are available in ZSNES), full screen support, joystick support, the all-important ‘speedup emulation’ key for impatient gamers, and a lot more.
It also contains many useful tools for Game Boy Advance developers, such as powerful GDB and gprof integration.
This package contains a version of VisualBoyAdvance with GTK+ support.
There are three methods to install visualboyadvance-gtk 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 visualboyadvance-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install visualboyadvance-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install visualboyadvance-gtk
Install visualboyadvance-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install visualboyadvance-gtk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install visualboyadvance-gtk
Install visualboyadvance-gtk 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 visualboyadvance-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install visualboyadvance-gtk
How To Uninstall visualboyadvance-gtk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the visualboyadvance-gtk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove visualboyadvance-gtk
Uninstall visualboyadvance-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall visualboyadvance-gtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove visualboyadvance-gtk
Remove visualboyadvance-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove visualboyadvance-gtk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge visualboyadvance-gtk
Remove visualboyadvance-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove visualboyadvance-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge visualboyadvance-gtk
Dependencies
visualboyadvance-gtk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance-gtk package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
