How To Install flare-data on Debian 12

Learn how to install flare-data on Debian 12 with this tutorial. flare-data is Meta package to deal with package name changes in Flare 0.19

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flare-data on Debian 12.

What is flare-data

flare-data is:

This is a transitional metapackage to deal with package name changes of 0.19 (separation between engine and game data).

There are three methods to install flare-data 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 flare-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install flare-data

Install flare-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install flare-data

Install flare-data 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 flare-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flare-data

How To Uninstall flare-data on Debian 12

To uninstall only the flare-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove flare-data

Uninstall flare-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flare-data

Remove flare-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge flare-data

Remove flare-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flare-data

Dependencies

flare-data have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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