How To Install smpq on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smpq
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is smpq
smpq is:
SMPQ is StormLib MPQ archiving utility. This utility is designed for full manipulating with Blizzard MPQ archives. It supports extracting, appending, renaming and deleting files in MPQ archives. It also can create MPQ archives. SMPQ can access different types and versions of MPQ archives. It supports encrypted, compressed, partial and patched MPQ archives in version 1-4. SMPQ is free opensource command line utility written in C which uses multiplatform C++ StormLib library.
There are three methods to install smpq
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 smpq Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smpq
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smpq
Install smpq Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smpq
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smpq
Install smpq 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 smpq
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smpq
How To Uninstall smpq on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the smpq
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smpq
Uninstall smpq And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smpq
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smpq
Remove smpq Configurations and Data
To remove smpq
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smpq
Remove smpq configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smpq
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smpq
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smpq
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.