How To Install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced is:
This wrapper makes bsnes-mercury balanced core API compatible with libretro, thus allowing its use with libretro frontends, such as RetroArch.
This core is enabled to emulate only SNES hardware and its subsystems (from the command line only), like Super Game Boy, Satellaview and Sufami Turbo.
bsnes-mercury is a fork of higan, aiming to restore some useful features that have been removed, as well as improving performance a bit. Maximum accuracy is still uncompromisable; anything that affects accuracy is optional and off by default. The name is because metals are shiny, like the accuracy promises of bsnes, and mercury is the fastest metal.
This package comes with the bsnes-mercury balanced core, which tries to keep a good balance between accuracy and performance. It runs almost all SNES games.
There are three methods to install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced 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 libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
Install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
Install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced 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 libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
How To Uninstall libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
Uninstall libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
Remove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced Configurations and Data
To remove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
Remove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
