How To Install renpy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install renpy
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is renpy
renpy is:
Ren’Py is a programming language and runtime, intended to ease the creation of visual-novel type games. It contains features that make it easy to display thoughts, dialogue, and menus; to display images to the user; to write game logic; and to support the saving and loading of games.
Ren’Py tries to be like an executable script, allowing you to get a working game without much more effort than is required to type the game script into the computer.
Ren’Py is implemented on top of Python, and that Python heritage shows through in many places. Many Ren’Py statements allow Python expressions to be used, and there are also Ren’Py statements that allow for the execution of arbitrary Python code. Many of the less-used features of Ren’Py are exposed to the user by way of Python. By only requiring use of the simplest features of Python, it’s hoped that Ren’Py will be usable by all game authors.
There are three methods to install renpy
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 renpy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install renpy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install renpy
Install renpy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install renpy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install renpy
Install renpy 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 renpy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install renpy
How To Uninstall renpy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the renpy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove renpy
Uninstall renpy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall renpy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove renpy
Remove renpy Configurations and Data
To remove renpy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge renpy
Remove renpy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove renpy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge renpy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install renpy
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.