How To Install castle-game-engine-src on Debian 12

Learn how to install castle-game-engine-src on Debian 12 with this tutorial. castle-game-engine-src is Castle Game Engine - Source code for Lazarus integration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install castle-game-engine-src on Debian 12.

What is castle-game-engine-src

castle-game-engine-src is:

Castle Game Engine is a set of LGPL licenced libraries that are intended to ease developing 3D games with FreePascal / Lazarus.

It provides an excellent support for the VRML / X3D 3D data format. Other 3D formats are also supported.

It features many advanced graphic effects and easy to use API on top of OpenGL.

This package contains source code for integration with Lazarus RAD IDE.

There are three methods to install castle-game-engine-src on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install castle-game-engine-src Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install castle-game-engine-src using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install castle-game-engine-src

Install castle-game-engine-src Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install castle-game-engine-src using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install castle-game-engine-src

Install castle-game-engine-src 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 castle-game-engine-src using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install castle-game-engine-src

How To Uninstall castle-game-engine-src on Debian 12

To uninstall only the castle-game-engine-src package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove castle-game-engine-src

Uninstall castle-game-engine-src And Its Dependencies

To uninstall castle-game-engine-src and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove castle-game-engine-src

Remove castle-game-engine-src Configurations and Data

To remove castle-game-engine-src configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge castle-game-engine-src

Remove castle-game-engine-src configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove castle-game-engine-src configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge castle-game-engine-src

Dependencies

castle-game-engine-src have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install castle-game-engine-src package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.