How To Install trackballs on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trackballs on Debian 12.
What is trackballs
trackballs is:
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classical game Marble Madness on the Amiga in the 80’s. By steering a marble ball through a labyrinth filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination it continues at the next, more difficult level - unless the time runs out.
This game is not intended to be a replica of Marble Madness but rather inspired by it. The game is also highly configurable by using a scripting extension (Guile) and it provides a simple editor by which new levels can easily be created.
There are three methods to install trackballs 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 trackballs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install trackballs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trackballs
Install trackballs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trackballs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trackballs
Install trackballs 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 trackballs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trackballs
How To Uninstall trackballs on Debian 12
To uninstall only the trackballs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trackballs
Uninstall trackballs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trackballs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trackballs
Remove trackballs Configurations and Data
To remove trackballs configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trackballs
Remove trackballs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trackballs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trackballs
Dependencies
trackballs have the following dependencies:
- trackballs-data
- guile-3.0-libs
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libgl1
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libsdl2-image-2.0-0
- libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0
- libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trackballs package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
