How To Install dealer on Debian 10

Learn how to install dealer on Debian 10 with this tutorial. dealer is bridge hand generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dealer on Debian 10.

What is dealer

dealer is:

This program generates bridge hands for partnerships bidding training or for generating statistics that can be used to design conventions, or win postmortems. Dealer has been used in many bridge publications.

Bridge is an intellectually challenging card game for four players. The “deal” package provides a similar generator programmable in Tcl.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dealer

Install dealer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dealer

Install dealer 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 dealer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dealer

How To Uninstall dealer on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove dealer

Uninstall dealer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dealer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dealer

Remove dealer Configurations and Data

To remove dealer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dealer

Remove dealer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dealer

Dependencies

dealer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dealer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.