How To Install games-sport on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-sport on Debian 9.
What is games-sport
games-sport is:
This metapackage will install sport games.
There are three methods to install games-sport on Debian 9. 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-sport 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-sport using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install games-sport
Install games-sport Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install games-sport using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install games-sport
Install games-sport 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 games-sport using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install games-sport
How To Uninstall games-sport on Debian 9
To uninstall only the games-sport package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove games-sport
Uninstall games-sport And Its Dependencies
To uninstall games-sport and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-sport
Remove games-sport Configurations and Data
To remove games-sport configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge games-sport
Remove games-sport configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove games-sport configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-sport
Dependencies
games-sport have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-sport package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.