How To Install gargoyle-free on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gargoyle-free on Kali Linux. gargoyle-free is graphical player for Interactive Fiction games

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gargoyle-free on Kali Linux.

What is gargoyle-free

gargoyle-free is:

Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction (text adventure) player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

Most interactive fiction is distributed as portable game files. These portable game files come in many formats. In the past, you used to have to download a separate player (interpreter) for each format of IF you wanted to play. Instead, Gargoyle provides unified player.

Gargoyle is based on the standard interpreters for the formats it supports: .taf (Adrift games, played with Scare), .dat (AdvSys), *.agx/.d$$ (AGiliTy), .a3c (Alan3), .asl/.cas (Quest games, played with Geas), .jacl/.j2 (JACL), .l9/.sna (Level 9), .mag (Magnetic), *.saga (Scott Adams Grand Adventures), .gam/.t3 (TADS), *.z1/.z2/.z3/.z4/.z5/.z6/.z7/.z8 (Inform Z-Machine games, played with Frotz, Nitfol or Bocfel), .ulx/.blb/.blorb/.glb/.gblorb (Inform or Supergl?s games compiled to the Glulxe VM in Blorb archives, played with Git or Glulxe), .zlb, .zblorb (Inform Z-Machine games in Blorb archives, played with Frotz).

(note: do not confuse the Git Glux interpreter with the Git DVCS or the GNU Interactive Tools)

Gargoyle also features graphics, sounds and Unicode support.

Technically all the bundled interpreters support the Glk API to manage I/O (keyboard, graphics, sounds, file) in IF games. Gargoyle provides a Glk implementation called garglk that displays texts and images in a graphical Gtk window, with care on typography.

Limitations:

  • While Gargoyle can display in-game pictures, it does not provide a way to display the cover art present in some Blorb archives.

  • The TADS interpreter doesn’t support HTML TADS; you can play the games, but will miss the hyperlinks.

There are three methods to install gargoyle-free on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gargoyle-free Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gargoyle-free

Install gargoyle-free Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gargoyle-free

Install gargoyle-free Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gargoyle-free using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gargoyle-free

How To Uninstall gargoyle-free on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gargoyle-free package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gargoyle-free

Uninstall gargoyle-free And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gargoyle-free and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gargoyle-free

Remove gargoyle-free Configurations and Data

To remove gargoyle-free configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gargoyle-free

Remove gargoyle-free configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gargoyle-free

Dependencies

gargoyle-free have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gargoyle-free package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.