How To Install ricochet on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ricochet
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ricochet
ricochet is:
Ricochet Robots is a multi-player board game which involves each user simultaneously solving a geometric challenge. This implementation is a networked version of the game with both client and server programs written in nickle using the nichrome toolkit.
There are three methods to install ricochet
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 ricochet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ricochet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ricochet
Install ricochet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ricochet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ricochet
Install ricochet 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 ricochet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ricochet
How To Uninstall ricochet on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ricochet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ricochet
Uninstall ricochet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ricochet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ricochet
Remove ricochet Configurations and Data
To remove ricochet
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ricochet
Remove ricochet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ricochet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ricochet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ricochet
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.