How To Install darkplaces-server on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkplaces-server
on Debian 11.
What is darkplaces-server
darkplaces-server is:
DarkPlaces is a graphically-intensive engine for Quake and related games, with improved visual effects and lighting and many features for mods. It can be used to play various games based on the Quake engine, such as Xonotic, Nexuiz Classic, OpenQuartz, and Quake itself.
This is the dedicated server version, with no GUI.
This engine isn’t useful without game data: to get a usable server, install nexuiz or another suitable set of game data. It is typically used via a script that launches it with a particular data set, such as the ones found in the “quake-server” and “nexuiz-server” packages.
There are three methods to install darkplaces-server
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 darkplaces-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 darkplaces-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install darkplaces-server
Install darkplaces-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install darkplaces-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install darkplaces-server
Install darkplaces-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 darkplaces-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install darkplaces-server
How To Uninstall darkplaces-server on Debian 11
To uninstall only the darkplaces-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove darkplaces-server
Uninstall darkplaces-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall darkplaces-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove darkplaces-server
Remove darkplaces-server Configurations and Data
To remove darkplaces-server
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge darkplaces-server
Remove darkplaces-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove darkplaces-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge darkplaces-server
Dependencies
darkplaces-server have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkplaces-server
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.