How To Install holdingnuts on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install holdingnuts on Ubuntu 18.04. holdingnuts is poker client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install holdingnuts on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is holdingnuts

holdingnuts is:

HoldingNuts is an open source multi-platform poker client and server. You can play the popular Texas Hold’em variant with people all over the world, meet your friends, run your own games and even setup your own poker network.

This package provides the client.

There are three methods to install holdingnuts on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install holdingnuts Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install holdingnuts using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install holdingnuts

Install holdingnuts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install holdingnuts using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install holdingnuts

Install holdingnuts 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 holdingnuts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install holdingnuts

How To Uninstall holdingnuts on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the holdingnuts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove holdingnuts

Uninstall holdingnuts And Its Dependencies

To uninstall holdingnuts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove holdingnuts

Remove holdingnuts Configurations and Data

To remove holdingnuts configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge holdingnuts

Remove holdingnuts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove holdingnuts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge holdingnuts

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install holdingnuts package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.