How To Install antimicro on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install antimicro
on Debian 11.
What is antimicro
antimicro is:
AntiMicroX is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support. However, you can use this program to control any desktop application (while running an X11 environment) with a gamepad.
https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox-profiles is a repository for pre-made AntiMicroX profiles, providing convenience controller layouts suitable for playing a game without having to map everything yourself.
Use evtest, or perhaps jstest from the joystick package, if you encounter problems detecting a controller, axes or buttons.
There are three methods to install antimicro
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 antimicro Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install antimicro
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install antimicro
Install antimicro Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install antimicro
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install antimicro
Install antimicro 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 antimicro
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install antimicro
How To Uninstall antimicro on Debian 11
To uninstall only the antimicro
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove antimicro
Uninstall antimicro And Its Dependencies
To uninstall antimicro
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove antimicro
Remove antimicro Configurations and Data
To remove antimicro
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge antimicro
Remove antimicro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove antimicro
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge antimicro
Dependencies
antimicro have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libqt5concurrent5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5widgets5
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- libxi6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install antimicro
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.