How To Install gearhead on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearhead on Debian 9.
What is gearhead
gearhead is:
A century and a half ago the Earth was nearly destroyed by nuclear war. Now, a federation of free city-states has begun to restore civilization. However, there are forces operating in the darkness which will unleash the horrors of the past age in a bid to determine the future of the human race.
Features of the game include random storyline generation, richly detailed character generation, complex NPC interaction, and of course over 150 different mechanical designs ranging from jet fighters to giant robots to city-smashing tanks.
This is the console version. For graphics, use gearhead-sdl instead.
There are three methods to install gearhead 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 gearhead Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gearhead using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gearhead
Install gearhead Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gearhead using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gearhead
Install gearhead 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 gearhead using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gearhead
How To Uninstall gearhead on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gearhead package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gearhead
Uninstall gearhead And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gearhead and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearhead
Remove gearhead Configurations and Data
To remove gearhead configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gearhead
Remove gearhead configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gearhead configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearhead
Dependencies
gearhead have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearhead package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.