How To Install pinball on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinball
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pinball
pinball is:
The Emilia Pinball Project is a pinball simulator for 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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 pinball
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pinball
How To Uninstall pinball on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pinball
Remove pinball Configurations and Data
To remove pinball
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinball
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.