How To Install goplay on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goplay on Debian 10.
What is goplay
goplay is:
GoPlay! is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that uses DebTags for easily finding games in the package archive. The program uses FLTK for handling the widgets, and libept as the backend for retrieving the data.
GoPlay! is also a generic yet simple to use DebTags-based package browser. Prepackaged browsers GoLearn!, GoAdmin!, GoNet!, GoOffice!, GoSafe!, GoWeb! and GoScience! show applications (and for some of them also documentation) packages related to education, administration, network, office, safety, web and science. You can also roll your own custom browsers using commandline options.
There are three methods to install goplay on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install goplay Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install goplay using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install goplay
Install goplay Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install goplay using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install goplay
Install goplay 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 goplay using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install goplay
How To Uninstall goplay on Debian 10
To uninstall only the goplay package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove goplay
Uninstall goplay And Its Dependencies
To uninstall goplay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove goplay
Remove goplay Configurations and Data
To remove goplay configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge goplay
Remove goplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove goplay configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goplay
Dependencies
goplay have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goplay package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.