How To Install higan on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install higan
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is higan
higan is:
higan is an emulator for systems from Nintendo (SNES, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance), Sega (Master System, Game Gear), NEC (PC Engine, SuperGrafx) and Bandai (WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color). It was formerly called bsnes and the SNES emulation is especially complete and polished.
higan strives to provide the most faithful hardware emulation possible. It focuses on accuracy and clean code, rather than speed and special features. It is meant as a reference emulator to document how the underlying hardware works. As a result the minimum system requirements are high.
There are three methods to install higan
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install higan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install higan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install higan
Install higan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install higan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install higan
Install higan 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install higan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install higan
How To Uninstall higan on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the higan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove higan
Uninstall higan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall higan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove higan
Remove higan Configurations and Data
To remove higan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge higan
Remove higan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove higan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge higan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install higan
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.