How To Install crossfire-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is crossfire-common
crossfire-common is:
Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for the X environment. It has certain flavors from other games, especially Gauntlet (TM) and Nethack/Moria. Any number of players can move around in their own window, finding and using items and battle monsters. They can choose to cooperate or compete in the same “world”.
There are three methods to install crossfire-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 crossfire-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 crossfire-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crossfire-common
Install crossfire-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crossfire-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crossfire-common
Install crossfire-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 crossfire-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crossfire-common
How To Uninstall crossfire-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the crossfire-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crossfire-common
Uninstall crossfire-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crossfire-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crossfire-common
Remove crossfire-common Configurations and Data
To remove crossfire-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crossfire-common
Remove crossfire-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crossfire-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crossfire-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crossfire-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
