How To Install open-adventure on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-adventure on Ubuntu 18.04. open-adventure is colossal cave adventure, the 1995 430-point version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-adventure on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is open-adventure

open-adventure is:

This is the last descendent of the original 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure worked on by the original authors – Crowther & Woods. It has sometimes been known as Adventure 2.5. The original PDP-10 name ‘advent’ is used for the built program to avoid collision with the BSD Games version.

There are three methods to install open-adventure 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 open-adventure Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install open-adventure using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install open-adventure

Install open-adventure Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install open-adventure using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install open-adventure

Install open-adventure 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 open-adventure using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install open-adventure

How To Uninstall open-adventure on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the open-adventure package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove open-adventure

Uninstall open-adventure And Its Dependencies

To uninstall open-adventure and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-adventure

Remove open-adventure Configurations and Data

To remove open-adventure configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge open-adventure

Remove open-adventure configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove open-adventure configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-adventure

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-adventure package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.