How To Install joy2key on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install joy2key
on Debian 10.
What is joy2key
joy2key is:
joy2key allows one to choose keyboard events for joystick axes and buttons, so that a joystick or gamepad can be used with an application that doesn’t have native joystick support.
There are three methods to install joy2key
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 joy2key Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install joy2key
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install joy2key
Install joy2key Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install joy2key
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install joy2key
Install joy2key 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 joy2key
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install joy2key
How To Uninstall joy2key on Debian 10
To uninstall only the joy2key
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove joy2key
Uninstall joy2key And Its Dependencies
To uninstall joy2key
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove joy2key
Remove joy2key Configurations and Data
To remove joy2key
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge joy2key
Remove joy2key configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove joy2key
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge joy2key
Dependencies
joy2key have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install joy2key
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.