How To Install ballerburg on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ballerburg

ballerburg is:

Two castles, separated by a mountain, try to defeat each other with their cannonballs, either by killing the opponent’s king or by weakening the opponent enough so that the king capitulates.

Ballerburg was originally written 1987 by Eckhard Kruse, for the Atari ST machines (which were brand new computers at that point in time). Over 25 years later, here’s finally the adaption of the original source code to modern operating systems.

There are three methods to install ballerburg 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 ballerburg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ballerburg

Install ballerburg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ballerburg

Install ballerburg 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 ballerburg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ballerburg

How To Uninstall ballerburg on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ballerburg

Uninstall ballerburg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ballerburg

Remove ballerburg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ballerburg

Remove ballerburg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ballerburg

Dependencies

ballerburg have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libsdl1.2debian

References

• ballerburg website

Summary

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