How To Install sgt-puzzles on Debian 12

Learn how to install sgt-puzzles on Debian 12 with this tutorial. sgt-puzzles is Simon Tathams Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sgt-puzzles on Debian 12.

What is sgt-puzzles

sgt-puzzles is:

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection contains a number of popular puzzle games for one player. It currently consists of these games:

  • Black Box, ball-finding puzzle
  • Bridges, bridge-placing puzzle
  • Cube, rolling cube puzzle
  • Dominosa, domino tiling puzzle
  • Fifteen, sliding block puzzle
  • Filling, polyomino puzzle
  • Flip, tile inversion puzzle
  • Flood, flood-filling puzzle
  • Galaxies, symmetric polyomino puzzle
  • Guess, combination-guessing puzzle
  • Inertia, gem-collecting puzzle
  • Keen, arithmetic Latin square puzzle
  • Light Up, light-bulb placing puzzle
  • Loopy, loop-drawing puzzle
  • Magnets, magnet-placing puzzle
  • Map, map-colouring puzzle
  • Mines, mine-finding puzzle
  • Mosaic, grid-filling puzzle
  • Net, network jigsaw puzzle
  • Netslide, toroidal sliding network puzzle
  • Palisade, grid-division puzzle
  • Pattern, pattern puzzle
  • Pearl, loop-drawing puzzle
  • Pegs, peg solitaire puzzle
  • Range, visible-distance puzzle
  • Rectangles, rectangles puzzle
  • Same Game, block-clearing puzzle
  • Signpost, square-connecting puzzle
  • Singles, number-removing puzzle
  • Sixteen, toroidal sliding block puzzle
  • Slant, maze-drawing puzzle
  • Solo, number placement puzzle
  • Tents, tent-placing puzzle
  • Towers, tower-placing Latin square puzzle
  • Tracks, path-finding railway track puzzle
  • Twiddle, rotational sliding block puzzle
  • Undead, monster-placing puzzle
  • Unequal, Latin square puzzle
  • Unruly, black and white grid puzzle
  • Untangle, planar graph layout puzzle

There are three methods to install sgt-puzzles 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 sgt-puzzles Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sgt-puzzles

Install sgt-puzzles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sgt-puzzles

Install sgt-puzzles 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 sgt-puzzles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sgt-puzzles

How To Uninstall sgt-puzzles on Debian 12

To uninstall only the sgt-puzzles package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sgt-puzzles

Uninstall sgt-puzzles And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sgt-puzzles

Remove sgt-puzzles Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sgt-puzzles

Remove sgt-puzzles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sgt-puzzles

Dependencies

sgt-puzzles have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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