How To Install alienblaster on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster on Kali Linux.

What is alienblaster

alienblaster is:

Your mission is simple: Stop the invasion of the aliens and blast them!

Alien Blaster is a classic 2D shoot ’em up featuring lots of different weapons, special items, aliens to blast and a big bad boss.

It supports both a single player mode and a cooperative two player mode for two persons playing on one computer.

There are three methods to install alienblaster on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install alienblaster Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alienblaster

Install alienblaster Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alienblaster

Install alienblaster Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install alienblaster

How To Uninstall alienblaster on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove alienblaster

Uninstall alienblaster And Its Dependencies

To uninstall alienblaster and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alienblaster

Remove alienblaster Configurations and Data

To remove alienblaster configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alienblaster

Remove alienblaster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alienblaster

Dependencies

alienblaster have the following dependencies:

• alienblaster-data
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libsdl-mixer1.2
• libsdl1.2debian
• libstdc++6

References

• alienblaster website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.