How To Install spectemu-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectemu-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spectemu-common
spectemu-common is:
Spectemu emulates the 48k ZX Spectrum, which uses the Z80 microprocessor. This package contains common configuration files and utilities which are or can be used by either the X11 or the SVGAlib frontend.
It emulates the Z80 processor as well as the 48k Spectrum’s other hardware: keyboard, screen, sound, tape I/O. The emulation is very close to the real thing, but it is still quite fast (It was reported to be working well on a laptop with 486 at 25MHz!). On the other hand, the user interface is not the best.
Features include: - Sound support through Linux kernel sound-card driver. - Snapshot saving and loading (.Z80 and .SNA format) - Tape emulation: loading from tape files (.TAP and .TZX format) - Optional quick loading of tapes. - Saving to tape files. - Separate utility to save tape files to real tape - Configurable with config files and from command line
There are three methods to install spectemu-common on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spectemu-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spectemu-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spectemu-common
Install spectemu-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spectemu-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spectemu-common
Install spectemu-common 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 spectemu-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spectemu-common
How To Uninstall spectemu-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spectemu-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spectemu-common
Uninstall spectemu-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spectemu-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectemu-common
Remove spectemu-common Configurations and Data
To remove spectemu-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spectemu-common
Remove spectemu-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spectemu-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectemu-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectemu-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
