How To Install mame-extra on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mame-extra on Kali Linux.
What is mame-extra
mame-extra is:
MAME is a hardware emulator: it faithfully reproduces the behavior of many arcade machines (it is not a simulation). This program is not a game but can directly, through ROM images, run the complete system of these old arcade machines. These ROMs are subject to copyright and it is in most of the cases illegal to use them if you do not own the arcade machine.
This package provides additional data files for the MAME arcade emulator: nplayers.ini – provide information about multi-player support history.dat – provides a brief historical overview of each game
There are three methods to install mame-extra on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mame-extra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mame-extra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mame-extraInstall mame-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mame-extra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mame-extraInstall mame-extra Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mame-extra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mame-extraHow To Uninstall mame-extra on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mame-extra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mame-extraUninstall mame-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mame-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mame-extraRemove mame-extra Configurations and Data
To remove mame-extra configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mame-extraRemove mame-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mame-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mame-extraDependencies
mame-extra have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mame-extra package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.