How To Install doomsday on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doomsday
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is doomsday
doomsday is:
The purpose of the Doomsday Engine project is to create versions of DOOM, Heretic and Hexen that feel the same as the original games but are implemented using modern techniques such as 3D graphics and client/server networking. A lot of emphasis is placed on good-looking graphics.
Doomsday Engine (or deng for short) requires an IWAD to play. You can install your commercial IWADs using game-data-packager.
There are three methods to install doomsday
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 doomsday Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doomsday
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doomsday
Install doomsday Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doomsday
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doomsday
Install doomsday 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 doomsday
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doomsday
How To Uninstall doomsday on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the doomsday
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doomsday
Uninstall doomsday And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doomsday
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doomsday
Remove doomsday Configurations and Data
To remove doomsday
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doomsday
Remove doomsday configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doomsday
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doomsday
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doomsday
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.