How To Install crossfire-server on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-server
on Debian 10.
What is crossfire-server
crossfire-server is:
This is the server program for the crossfire client
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”.
There are three methods to install crossfire-server
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-server 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-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossfire-server
Install crossfire-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossfire-server
Install crossfire-server 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-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossfire-server
How To Uninstall crossfire-server on Debian 10
To uninstall only the crossfire-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossfire-server
Uninstall crossfire-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossfire-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossfire-server
Remove crossfire-server Configurations and Data
To remove crossfire-server
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossfire-server
Remove crossfire-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossfire-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossfire-server
Dependencies
crossfire-server have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-server
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.