How To Install dsda-doom on Debian 12

Learn how to install dsda-doom on Debian 12 with this tutorial. dsda-doom is Doom source port with a focus on demo recording and speedrunning

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dsda-doom on Debian 12.

What is dsda-doom

dsda-doom is:

This is a fork of prboom+ with many new features, including:

  • Heretic, Hexen, MBF21, and Doom-in-Hexen support
  • In-game console and scripting
  • Full controller support
  • Palette-based lightmode for opengl
  • Debugging features for testing
  • Strict mode for speedrunning
  • Various quality of life improvements
  • Advanced tools for TASing
  • Rewind

DSDA-Doom requires game data to run. Free game data is available in the freedoom package. Commercial game data can be packaged using game-data-packager. DSDA-Doom supports all flavors of Doom, including The Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom as well as Chex(R) Quest, HacX, Freedoom: Phase 1 and Phase 2 and FreeDM.

Additionally, DSDA-Doom supports Heretic and Hexen.

There are three methods to install dsda-doom 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 dsda-doom Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dsda-doom

Install dsda-doom Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dsda-doom

Install dsda-doom 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 dsda-doom using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dsda-doom

How To Uninstall dsda-doom on Debian 12

To uninstall only the dsda-doom package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dsda-doom

Uninstall dsda-doom And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dsda-doom and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dsda-doom

Remove dsda-doom Configurations and Data

To remove dsda-doom configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dsda-doom

Remove dsda-doom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dsda-doom

Dependencies

dsda-doom have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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