How To Install lutris on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lutris
on Debian 12.
What is lutris
lutris is:
Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.
There are three methods to install lutris
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 lutris Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lutris
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lutris
Install lutris Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lutris
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lutris
Install lutris 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 lutris
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lutris
How To Uninstall lutris on Debian 12
To uninstall only the lutris
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lutris
Uninstall lutris And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lutris
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lutris
Remove lutris Configurations and Data
To remove lutris
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lutris
Remove lutris configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lutris
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lutris
Dependencies
lutris have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lutris
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.