How To Install love on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install love
on Debian 12.
What is love
love is:
L?VE was created to be a user-friendly engine in which simple (or complicated) games could be made without having extensive knowledge of system or graphics functions and without having to dedicate time towards developing the same engine features time and time again.
Developed with cross-platform implementation in mind, it utilizes the latest open source libraries to deliver a similar game experience, independent of operating system. By relying on the Lua scripting language for game-specific programming, it allows even the novice game creator to quickly and efficiently develop an idea into a fully working game.
There are three methods to install love
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install love Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install love
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install love
Install love Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install love
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install love
Install love 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 love
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install love
How To Uninstall love on Debian 12
To uninstall only the love
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove love
Uninstall love And Its Dependencies
To uninstall love
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove love
Remove love Configurations and Data
To remove love
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge love
Remove love configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove love
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge love
Dependencies
love have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install love
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.