How To Install nestopia on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nestopia
on Debian 10.
What is nestopia
nestopia is:
Nestopia is a cycle-accurate NES/Famicom emulator. It has a high compatibility rate and support for many peripherals and input devices.
Features: * Save states * Movie recording * Game rewinding * GUI or command line interface * Emulation of NTSC, PAL, and Dendy systems * Support for NES Zapper games * Support for Famicom Disk System games
Nestopia requires OpenGL 3.2 or later.
There are three methods to install nestopia
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nestopia Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nestopia
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nestopia
Install nestopia Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nestopia
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nestopia
Install nestopia 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 nestopia
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nestopia
How To Uninstall nestopia on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nestopia
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nestopia
Uninstall nestopia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nestopia
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nestopia
Remove nestopia Configurations and Data
To remove nestopia
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nestopia
Remove nestopia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nestopia
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nestopia
Dependencies
nestopia have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nestopia
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.