How To Install pinball on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pinball

pinball is:

The Emilia Pinball Project is a pinball simulator for GNU/Linux and other Unix systems. There are only two levels to play with, but they are very addictive.

You can play with two types of boards and keep high scores.

Works with OpenGL and needs hardware acceleration. See requeriments on README file.

There are three methods to install pinball 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 pinball Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pinball

Install pinball Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pinball using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pinball

Install pinball 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 pinball using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pinball

How To Uninstall pinball on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pinball package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pinball

Uninstall pinball And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pinball and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pinball

Remove pinball Configurations and Data

To remove pinball configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pinball

Remove pinball configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pinball

Dependencies

pinball have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgl1
• libltdl7
• libsdl-image1.2
• libsdl-mixer1.2
• libsdl1.2debian
• libstdc++6
• pinball-data

References

• pinball website

Summary

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