How To Install doom-wad-shareware on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doom-wad-shareware on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is doom-wad-shareware
doom-wad-shareware is:
This is the Shareware doom-wad file for Doom. A doom-wad file is required for doom-engines such as prboom or chocolate-doom. You can use this package to sample the commercial game in conjunction with a package providing doom-engine.
If you own one of the commercial Doom games, you can use game-data-packager to register your commercial doom-wad file on your Debian system.
Finally, you can use the freedoom boom-wad package in conjunction with a boom-engine (e.g. prboom).
There are three methods to install doom-wad-shareware on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install doom-wad-shareware Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doom-wad-shareware using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doom-wad-shareware
Install doom-wad-shareware Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doom-wad-shareware using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doom-wad-shareware
Install doom-wad-shareware 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 doom-wad-shareware using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doom-wad-shareware
How To Uninstall doom-wad-shareware on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the doom-wad-shareware package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doom-wad-shareware
Uninstall doom-wad-shareware And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doom-wad-shareware and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doom-wad-shareware
Remove doom-wad-shareware Configurations and Data
To remove doom-wad-shareware configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doom-wad-shareware
Remove doom-wad-shareware configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doom-wad-shareware configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doom-wad-shareware
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doom-wad-shareware package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
