How To Install greed on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install greed on Debian 11.
What is greed
greed is:
This is a curses-based clone of the DOS free-ware game Greed. The goal of this game is to try to eat as much as possible of the board before munching yourself into a corner.
There are three methods to install greed 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 greed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install greed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install greed
Install greed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install greed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install greed
Install greed 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 greed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install greed
How To Uninstall greed on Debian 11
To uninstall only the greed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove greed
Uninstall greed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall greed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove greed
Remove greed Configurations and Data
To remove greed configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge greed
Remove greed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove greed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge greed
Dependencies
greed have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install greed package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
