How To Install criticalmass on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install criticalmass
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is criticalmass
criticalmass is:
criticalmass, aka critter, is a shoot-’em-up in the style of Galaxian with very colorful and smooth graphics (provided that you have 3d acceleration)
Note: criticalmass uses OpenGL, and will probably not run well if you do not have a 3d accelerator which is supported by X.
There are three methods to install criticalmass
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install criticalmass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install criticalmass
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install criticalmass
Install criticalmass Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install criticalmass
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install criticalmass
Install criticalmass 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 criticalmass
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install criticalmass
How To Uninstall criticalmass on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the criticalmass
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove criticalmass
Uninstall criticalmass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall criticalmass
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove criticalmass
Remove criticalmass Configurations and Data
To remove criticalmass
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge criticalmass
Remove criticalmass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove criticalmass
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge criticalmass
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install criticalmass
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.