How To Install glulxe on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glulxe
on Debian 11.
What is glulxe
glulxe is:
glulxe is the authoritative interpreter for the Glulx interactive fiction VM, which is a 32-bit update of the older Z-Machine standard.
This program can play games ending with .ulx, .gblorb, .glb, .blorb, and .blb. glulxe needs only a terminal; the optional graphics in some Glulx games can be shown by using the package gargoyle-free instead.
There are three methods to install glulxe
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 glulxe Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glulxe
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glulxe
Install glulxe Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glulxe
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glulxe
Install glulxe 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 glulxe
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glulxe
How To Uninstall glulxe on Debian 11
To uninstall only the glulxe
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glulxe
Uninstall glulxe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glulxe
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glulxe
Remove glulxe Configurations and Data
To remove glulxe
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glulxe
Remove glulxe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glulxe
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glulxe
Dependencies
glulxe have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glulxe
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.