How To Install nestopia on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nestopia on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nestopia

Remove nestopia Configurations and Data

To remove nestopia configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libao4
• libarchive13
• libc6
• libepoxy0
• libgcc-s1
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libjack-jackd2-0
• libsdl2-2.0-0
• libstdc++6
• zlib1g

References

• nestopia website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nestopia package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.