How To Install glhack on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glhack
on Debian 9.
What is glhack
glhack is:
glHack is a port of the game NetHack, using hardware acceleration via OpenGL(R) to render the 2D tile graphics. It uses LibSDL as the video and input library. There is good support for software rendering (without OpenGL) as well.
glHack is just one of the many NetHack front-ends. Others include the original text-terminal (TTY) version, one for the X Window System, and one for GNOME called GnomeHack.
See the official NetHack website for complete information about the actual game.
There are three methods to install glhack
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 glhack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glhack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glhack
Install glhack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glhack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glhack
Install glhack 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 glhack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glhack
How To Uninstall glhack on Debian 9
To uninstall only the glhack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glhack
Uninstall glhack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glhack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glhack
Remove glhack Configurations and Data
To remove glhack
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glhack
Remove glhack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glhack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glhack
Dependencies
glhack have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glhack
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.