How To Install mupen64plus-ui-console on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupen64plus-ui-console on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mupen64plus-ui-console
mupen64plus-ui-console is:
Minimal console user interface for mupen64plus. Features provided:
- Changeable emulation plugins for audio, core, input, rsp, video
- Selection of emulation core
- Graphical OSD for status output
- Setting of configuration variable per session or in configuration file
- Cheat database support
- Loading of roms
It does not provide any sort of graphical setup or functionality to uncompress files.
There are three methods to install mupen64plus-ui-console 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 mupen64plus-ui-console Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mupen64plus-ui-console using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mupen64plus-ui-console
Install mupen64plus-ui-console Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mupen64plus-ui-console using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mupen64plus-ui-console
Install mupen64plus-ui-console 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 mupen64plus-ui-console using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mupen64plus-ui-console
How To Uninstall mupen64plus-ui-console on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mupen64plus-ui-console package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mupen64plus-ui-console
Uninstall mupen64plus-ui-console And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mupen64plus-ui-console and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mupen64plus-ui-console
Remove mupen64plus-ui-console Configurations and Data
To remove mupen64plus-ui-console configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mupen64plus-ui-console
Remove mupen64plus-ui-console configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mupen64plus-ui-console configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mupen64plus-ui-console
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupen64plus-ui-console package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
