How To Install visualboyadvance on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance on Kali Linux. visualboyadvance is full featured Game Boy Advance emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance on Kali Linux.

What is visualboyadvance

visualboyadvance 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 compiled with the original GUI-less SDL interface.

There are three methods to install visualboyadvance on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install visualboyadvance

Install visualboyadvance Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install visualboyadvance

Install visualboyadvance Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install visualboyadvance

How To Uninstall visualboyadvance on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove visualboyadvance

Uninstall visualboyadvance And Its Dependencies

To uninstall visualboyadvance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove visualboyadvance

Remove visualboyadvance Configurations and Data

To remove visualboyadvance configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge visualboyadvance

Remove visualboyadvance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge visualboyadvance

Dependencies

visualboyadvance have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.