How To Install gearhead-sdl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearhead-sdl on Debian 12.
What is gearhead-sdl
gearhead-sdl 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 SDL version. For console, use gearhead instead.
There are three methods to install gearhead-sdl on Debian 12. 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-sdl 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-sdl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gearhead-sdl
Install gearhead-sdl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gearhead-sdl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gearhead-sdl
Install gearhead-sdl 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-sdl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gearhead-sdl
How To Uninstall gearhead-sdl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gearhead-sdl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gearhead-sdl
Uninstall gearhead-sdl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gearhead-sdl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearhead-sdl
Remove gearhead-sdl Configurations and Data
To remove gearhead-sdl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gearhead-sdl
Remove gearhead-sdl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gearhead-sdl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearhead-sdl
Dependencies
gearhead-sdl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearhead-sdl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
