How To Install crawl-common on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install crawl-common on Ubuntu 18.04. crawl-common is Dungeon Crawl, a text-based roguelike game (data files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crawl-common on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is crawl-common

crawl-common is:

Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of games like Rogue, Hack, and Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.

These are the data and support files.

This is the Stone Soup version of Dungeon Crawl.

There are three methods to install crawl-common 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 crawl-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install crawl-common

Install crawl-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install crawl-common

Install crawl-common 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 crawl-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crawl-common

How To Uninstall crawl-common on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the crawl-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crawl-common

Uninstall crawl-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crawl-common

Remove crawl-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge crawl-common

Remove crawl-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crawl-common

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Summary

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