How To Install frobtads on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install frobtads on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is frobtads
frobtads is:
TADS is the Text Adventure Development System, a set of tools for writing and playing text-based adventure games. You interface with these games by entering commands in English, and the game responds with a textual description of the result.
This package contains the text-mode TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter. You must have a TADS interpreter to play a TADS game file, which typically has an extension of “.gam” or “.t3”. You can find many of these games at the Interactive Fiction Archive at http://www.ifarchive.org/.
There are three methods to install frobtads 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 frobtads Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install frobtads using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install frobtads
Install frobtads Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install frobtads using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install frobtads
Install frobtads 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 frobtads using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install frobtads
How To Uninstall frobtads on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the frobtads package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove frobtads
Uninstall frobtads And Its Dependencies
To uninstall frobtads and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove frobtads
Remove frobtads Configurations and Data
To remove frobtads configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge frobtads
Remove frobtads configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove frobtads configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge frobtads
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install frobtads package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
