How To Install tiled on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiled on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tiled
tiled is:
Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It’s built to be easy to use, yet capable of catering to a host of varying game engines, whether your game is an RPG, platformer or Breakout clone. Tiled supports plugins to read and write map formats, in addition to its map format, to support map formats in use by engines.
There are three methods to install tiled 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 tiled Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tiled using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tiled
Install tiled Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tiled using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tiled
Install tiled 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 tiled using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tiled
How To Uninstall tiled on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tiled package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tiled
Uninstall tiled And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tiled and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tiled
Remove tiled Configurations and Data
To remove tiled configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tiled
Remove tiled configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tiled configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tiled
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiled package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
