How To Install gargoyle-free on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gargoyle-free on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gargoyle-free
gargoyle-free is:
Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction (text adventure) player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.
Most interactive fiction is distributed as portable game files. These portable game files come in many formats. In the past, you used to have to download a separate player (interpreter) for each format of IF you wanted to play. Instead, Gargoyle provides unified player.
Gargoyle is based on the standard interpreters for the formats it supports: .taf (Adrift games, played with Scare), .dat (AdvSys), *.agx/.d$$ (AGiliTy), .a3c (Alan3), .asl/.cas (Quest games, played with Geas), .jacl/.j2 (JACL), .l9/.sna (Level 9), .mag (Magnetic), *.saga (Scott Adams Grand Adventures), .gam/.t3 (TADS), *.z1/.z2/.z3/.z4/.z5/.z6/.z7/.z8 (Inform Z-Machine games, played with Frotz, Nitfol or Bocfel), .ulx/.blb/.blorb/.glb/.gblorb (Inform or Superglús games compiled to the Glulxe VM in Blorb archives, played with Git or Glulxe), .zlb, .zblorb (Inform Z-Machine games in Blorb archives, played with Frotz).
(note: do not confuse the Git Glux interpreter with the Git DVCS or the GNU Interactive Tools)
Gargoyle also features graphics, sounds and Unicode support.
Technically all the bundled interpreters support the Glk API to manage I/O (keyboard, graphics, sounds, file) in IF games. Gargoyle provides a Glk implementation called garglk that displays texts and images in a graphical Gtk window, with care on typography.
Limitations:
This free version of gargoyle does not include the non-free Hugo interpreter (and uses a different, free monospace font).
While Gargoyle can display in-game pictures, it does not provide a way to display the cover art present in some Blorb archives.
The TADS interpreter doesn’t support HTML TADS; you can play the games, but will miss the hyperlinks.
There are three methods to install gargoyle-free 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 gargoyle-free Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gargoyle-free using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gargoyle-free
Install gargoyle-free Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gargoyle-free using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gargoyle-free
Install gargoyle-free 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 gargoyle-free using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gargoyle-free
How To Uninstall gargoyle-free on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gargoyle-free package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gargoyle-free
Uninstall gargoyle-free And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gargoyle-free and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gargoyle-free
Remove gargoyle-free Configurations and Data
To remove gargoyle-free configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gargoyle-free
Remove gargoyle-free configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gargoyle-free configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gargoyle-free
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gargoyle-free package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
