How To Install nethack-console on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethack-console on Debian 10.
What is nethack-console
nethack-console is:
NetHack is a wonderfully silly, yet quite addictive, Dungeons & Dragons-style adventure game. You play a character from one of many classes (such as wizard, ranger, or tourist), fighting your way down to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor (try saying THAT one backwards!) for your god. On the way, you might encounter a quantum mechanic or two, or perhaps King Arthur, or - if you’re REALLY lucky - the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
You should install a front-end for NetHack if you wish to play the game. Each of them includes the original non-graphical version, and they can all be installed at the same time:
- nethack-console: no graphics, just plain NetHack;
- nethack-x11 : original X11/Athena-based graphical version;
- nethack-lisp : Lisp window version.
This package provides the plain console version of NetHack.
There are three methods to install nethack-console 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 nethack-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 nethack-console using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nethack-console
Install nethack-console Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nethack-console using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nethack-console
Install nethack-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nethack-console using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nethack-console
How To Uninstall nethack-console on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nethack-console package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nethack-console
Uninstall nethack-console And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nethack-console and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nethack-console
Remove nethack-console Configurations and Data
To remove nethack-console configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nethack-console
Remove nethack-console configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nethack-console configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nethack-console
Dependencies
nethack-console have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethack-console package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.