How To Install nethack-console on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethack-console on Kali Linux.
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-qt : Qt version.
This package provides the plain console version of NetHack.
There are three methods to install nethack-console 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 nethack-console Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install nethack-console using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nethack-consoleInstall nethack-console Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install nethack-console using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nethack-consoleInstall nethack-console 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 nethack-console using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nethack-consoleHow To Uninstall nethack-console on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the nethack-console package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nethack-consoleUninstall nethack-console And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nethack-console and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nethack-consoleRemove nethack-console Configurations and Data
To remove nethack-console configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nethack-consoleRemove 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-consoleDependencies
nethack-console have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethack-console package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
