How To Install games-emulator on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-emulator
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is games-emulator
games-emulator is:
This metapackage will install emulators.
There are three methods to install games-emulator
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install games-emulator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install games-emulator
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install games-emulator
Install games-emulator Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install games-emulator
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install games-emulator
Install games-emulator 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 games-emulator
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install games-emulator
How To Uninstall games-emulator on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the games-emulator
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove games-emulator
Uninstall games-emulator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall games-emulator
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-emulator
Remove games-emulator Configurations and Data
To remove games-emulator
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge games-emulator
Remove games-emulator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove games-emulator
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-emulator
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-emulator
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.