How To Install phosh-games on Debian 12

Learn how to install phosh-games on Debian 12 with this tutorial. phosh-games is games for the GNOME/Phosh mobile environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh-games on Debian 12.

What is phosh-games

phosh-games is:

These are the games from the GNOME/Phosh environment that should fit the screens of mobile devices.

Games are now split in separate packages; this metapackage brings all of them but they can be installed separately.

There are three methods to install phosh-games on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install phosh-games Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phosh-games

Install phosh-games Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phosh-games

Install phosh-games 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 phosh-games using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phosh-games

How To Uninstall phosh-games on Debian 12

To uninstall only the phosh-games package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phosh-games

Uninstall phosh-games And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phosh-games and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phosh-games

Remove phosh-games Configurations and Data

To remove phosh-games configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phosh-games

Remove phosh-games configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phosh-games

Dependencies

phosh-games have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh-games package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.