How To Install crossfire-client on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-client on Debian 10.
What is crossfire-client
crossfire-client is:
Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for the X environment.
It has certain flavours from other games, especially Gauntlet (TM) and Nethack/Moria.
Any number of players can move around in their own window, finding and using items and battle monsters. They can choose to cooperate or compete in the same ‘world’.
To play the game you’ll need to have access to a local or remote server.
There are three methods to install crossfire-client on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install crossfire-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossfire-client
Install crossfire-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossfire-client
Install crossfire-client 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 crossfire-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossfire-client
How To Uninstall crossfire-client on Debian 10
To uninstall only the crossfire-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossfire-client
Uninstall crossfire-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossfire-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossfire-client
Remove crossfire-client Configurations and Data
To remove crossfire-client configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossfire-client
Remove crossfire-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossfire-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossfire-client
Dependencies
crossfire-client have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libgl1
- libglib2.0-0
- libglu1-mesa
- libgtk2.0-0
- libice6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-client package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.