How To Install endless-sky on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install endless-sky
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is endless-sky
endless-sky is:
Endless sky is a 2D space exploration game with action, strategy, and role playing elements.
Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find some friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own…
Endless Sky requires OpenGL 3.0 or higher.
There are three methods to install endless-sky
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 endless-sky Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install endless-sky
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install endless-sky
Install endless-sky Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install endless-sky
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install endless-sky
Install endless-sky 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 endless-sky
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install endless-sky
How To Uninstall endless-sky on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the endless-sky
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove endless-sky
Uninstall endless-sky And Its Dependencies
To uninstall endless-sky
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove endless-sky
Remove endless-sky Configurations and Data
To remove endless-sky
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge endless-sky
Remove endless-sky configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove endless-sky
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge endless-sky
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install endless-sky
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.