How To Install prboom-plus on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prboom-plus
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is prboom-plus
prboom-plus is:
PrBoom+ is an enhanced source port of the classic 3D first-person shooter game Doom, first released by id Software in 1993. It uses the Simple Direct Media layer (SDL) library and features an optional OpenGL renderer. It is based on PrBoom, MBF and LxDoom, which in turn are based on TeamTNT’s Boom, a freely available port of Doom for DOS.
In addition to PrBoom’s features, PrBoom+ offers uncapped framerate, variable gamespeed, re-record, walkcam, chasecam, full mouselook, FOV, and other features without loss of compatibility with the original Doom.
PrBoom+ requires game data to run. Free game data is available in the freedoom package. Commercial game data can be packaged using game-data-packager. PrBoom+ supports all flavors of Doom, including The Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom as well as Chex(R) Quest, HACX, FreeDoom and FreeDM.
There are three methods to install prboom-plus
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 prboom-plus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prboom-plus
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prboom-plus
Install prboom-plus Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prboom-plus
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prboom-plus
Install prboom-plus 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 prboom-plus
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prboom-plus
How To Uninstall prboom-plus on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the prboom-plus
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prboom-plus
Uninstall prboom-plus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prboom-plus
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prboom-plus
Remove prboom-plus Configurations and Data
To remove prboom-plus
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prboom-plus
Remove prboom-plus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prboom-plus
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prboom-plus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prboom-plus
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.