How To Install lgogdownloader on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lgogdownloader
on Kali Linux.
What is lgogdownloader
lgogdownloader is:
lgogdownloader is a client for the GOG.com download API, allowing simple downloads and updates of games and other files from GOG.com.
This package is only useful if you own games on GOG.com. There are a few free-as-in-beer games available for Linux, but the DFSG-free games available on GOG.com are not provided for Linux and are available in Debian anyway (lure-of-the-temptress, beneath-a-steel-sky, flight-of-the-amazon-queen).
There are three methods to install lgogdownloader
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lgogdownloader Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lgogdownloader
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lgogdownloader
Install lgogdownloader Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lgogdownloader
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lgogdownloader
Install lgogdownloader Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lgogdownloader
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lgogdownloader
How To Uninstall lgogdownloader on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lgogdownloader
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lgogdownloader
Uninstall lgogdownloader And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lgogdownloader
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lgogdownloader
Remove lgogdownloader Configurations and Data
To remove lgogdownloader
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lgogdownloader
Remove lgogdownloader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lgogdownloader
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lgogdownloader
Dependencies
lgogdownloader have the following dependencies:
- libboost-filesystem1.74.0
- libboost-iostreams1.74.0
- libboost-program-options1.74.0
- libboost-regex1.74.0-icu67
- libc6
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libgcc-s1
- libhtmlcxx3v5
- libjsoncpp24
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5network5
- libqt5webenginewidgets5
- libqt5widgets5
- librhash0
- libstdc++6
- libtinyxml2-8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lgogdownloader
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.