How To Install alienblaster-data on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster-data on Ubuntu 18.04. alienblaster-data is Game data for Alien Blaster

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster-data on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is alienblaster-data

alienblaster-data is:

Your mission is simple: Stop the invasion of the aliens and blast them!

Alien Blaster is a classic 2D shoot ’em up featuring lots of different weapons, special items, aliens to blast and a big bad boss.

It supports both a single player mode and a cooperative two player mode for two persons playing on one computer.

This package provides the architecture-independant game media.

There are three methods to install alienblaster-data 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 alienblaster-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alienblaster-data

Install alienblaster-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alienblaster-data

Install alienblaster-data 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 alienblaster-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alienblaster-data

How To Uninstall alienblaster-data on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the alienblaster-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alienblaster-data

Uninstall alienblaster-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alienblaster-data

Remove alienblaster-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge alienblaster-data

Remove alienblaster-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alienblaster-data

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Summary

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