How To Install goplay on Debian 10

Learn how to install goplay on Debian 10 with this tutorial. goplay is games (and more) package browser using DebTags

Introduction

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

What is goplay

goplay is:

GoPlay! is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that uses DebTags for easily finding games in the package archive. The program uses FLTK for handling the widgets, and libept as the backend for retrieving the data.

GoPlay! is also a generic yet simple to use DebTags-based package browser. Prepackaged browsers GoLearn!, GoAdmin!, GoNet!, GoOffice!, GoSafe!, GoWeb! and GoScience! show applications (and for some of them also documentation) packages related to education, administration, network, office, safety, web and science. You can also roll your own custom browsers using commandline options.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install goplay

Install goplay Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install goplay

Install goplay 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 goplay using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install goplay

How To Uninstall goplay on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove goplay

Uninstall goplay And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove goplay

Remove goplay Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge goplay

Remove goplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goplay

Dependencies

goplay have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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