How To Install tint on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tint on Ubuntu 18.04. tint is TINT Is Not Tetris(tm) …at least the name isnt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tint on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tint

tint is:

As the title suggests, this is a clone of the original tetris game written by Alexey Pajitnov, Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov.

The game is as close to the original as possible, but there are a few differences. Nevertheless, it’s probably the closest to the original that you’ll ever find in the UNIX world…

There are three methods to install tint 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 tint Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tint

Install tint Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tint using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tint

Install tint 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 tint using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tint

How To Uninstall tint on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tint package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tint

Uninstall tint And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tint and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tint

Remove tint Configurations and Data

To remove tint configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tint

Remove tint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tint

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tint package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.