How To Install glbsp on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glbsp on Debian 12.
What is glbsp
glbsp is:
glBSP is a node builder specially designed to be used with OpenGL ports of the DOOM game engine. It adheres to the “GL-Friendly Nodes” specification, which means it adds some new special nodes to a WAD file that makes it very easy (and fast!) for an OpenGL DOOM engine to compute the polygons needed for drawing the levels.
There are many DOOM ports that understand the GL Nodes which glBSP creates, including EDGE, the Doomsday engine (JDOOM), Doom3D, PrBoom, and Vavoom.
There are three methods to install glbsp 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 glbsp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glbsp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glbsp
Install glbsp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glbsp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glbsp
Install glbsp 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 glbsp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glbsp
How To Uninstall glbsp on Debian 12
To uninstall only the glbsp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glbsp
Uninstall glbsp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glbsp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glbsp
Remove glbsp Configurations and Data
To remove glbsp configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glbsp
Remove glbsp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glbsp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glbsp
Dependencies
glbsp have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glbsp package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.