How To Install darkplaces on Debian 10

Learn how to install darkplaces on Debian 10 with this tutorial. darkplaces is Game engine for Quake and similar 3D first person shooter games

Introduction

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

What is darkplaces

darkplaces is:

DarkPlaces is a graphically-intensive engine for Quake and related games, with improved visual effects and lighting and many features for mods. It can be used to play various games based on the Quake engine, such as Xonotic, Nexuiz Classic, OpenQuartz, and Quake itself.

This is the client version of the engine, with a SDL GUI.

This engine isn’t useful without game data: to get a playable game, install nexuiz or another suitable set of game data. It is typically used via a script that launches it with a particular data set, such as the ones found in the “quake” and “nexuiz” packages.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install darkplaces

Install darkplaces Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install darkplaces

Install darkplaces 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 darkplaces using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install darkplaces

How To Uninstall darkplaces on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove darkplaces

Uninstall darkplaces And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove darkplaces

Remove darkplaces Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge darkplaces

Remove darkplaces configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge darkplaces

Dependencies

darkplaces have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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