How To Install brickos on Debian 10

Learn how to install brickos on Debian 10 with this tutorial. brickos is alternative OS for LEGO(r) Mindstorms RCX. Supports devel. in C/C++

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brickos on Debian 10.

What is brickos

brickos is:

A multitasking operating system with development environment for use as an alternative to the standard LEGO(r) Mindstorms RCX firmware.

For posts to/from other users: http://lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/legos/

(LEGO(r) is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies.)

There are three methods to install brickos 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 brickos Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install brickos

Install brickos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install brickos

Install brickos 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 brickos using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install brickos

How To Uninstall brickos on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove brickos

Uninstall brickos And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove brickos

Remove brickos Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge brickos

Remove brickos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brickos

Dependencies

brickos have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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