How To Install doomsday on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doomsday
on Debian 11.
What is doomsday
doomsday is:
The purpose of the Doomsday Engine project is to create versions of DOOM, Heretic and Hexen that feel the same as the original games but are implemented using modern techniques such as 3D graphics and client/server networking. A lot of emphasis is placed on good-looking graphics.
Doomsday Engine (or deng for short) requires an IWAD to play. You can install your commercial IWADs using game-data-packager.
There are three methods to install doomsday
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install doomsday Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doomsday
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doomsday
Install doomsday Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doomsday
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doomsday
Install doomsday 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 doomsday
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doomsday
How To Uninstall doomsday on Debian 11
To uninstall only the doomsday
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doomsday
Uninstall doomsday And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doomsday
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doomsday
Remove doomsday Configurations and Data
To remove doomsday
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doomsday
Remove doomsday configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doomsday
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doomsday
Dependencies
doomsday have the following dependencies:
- doomsday-common
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5widgets5
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- doomsday-data
- doomsday-data
- doomsday-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doomsday
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.