How To Install foobillardplus on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foobillardplus
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is foobillardplus
foobillardplus is:
FooBillard++ is an advanced 3D OpenGL billiard game based on the original foobillard 3.0a sources from Florian Berger. You can play it with one or two players or against the computer.
The game features:
- Wood paneled table with gold covers and gold diamonds.
- Reflections on balls.
- Zoom in and out, rotation, different angles and bird’s eye view.
- Different game modes: 8 or 9-ball, Snooker or Karambol.
- Tournaments. Compete against other players.
- Animated cue with strength and eccentric hit adjustment.
- Jump shots and snipping.
- Realistic gameplay and billiard sounds.
- Red-Green stereo.
- And much more.
There are three methods to install foobillardplus
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install foobillardplus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install foobillardplus
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install foobillardplus
Install foobillardplus Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install foobillardplus
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install foobillardplus
Install foobillardplus 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install foobillardplus
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install foobillardplus
How To Uninstall foobillardplus on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the foobillardplus
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove foobillardplus
Uninstall foobillardplus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall foobillardplus
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove foobillardplus
Remove foobillardplus Configurations and Data
To remove foobillardplus
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge foobillardplus
Remove foobillardplus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove foobillardplus
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foobillardplus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foobillardplus
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.