How To Install etoys on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install etoys on Ubuntu 22.04. etoys is media-rich model, simulation construction kit and authoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install etoys on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is etoys

etoys is:

Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by end-users that runs on many platforms, and is free and open source. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, presentations, web-pages, videos, sound and MIDI, etc. It includes the ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet.

This is the Squeak image developed for the OLPC project.

There are three methods to install etoys 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 etoys Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install etoys using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install etoys

Install etoys Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install etoys using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install etoys

Install etoys 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 etoys using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install etoys

How To Uninstall etoys on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the etoys package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove etoys

Uninstall etoys And Its Dependencies

To uninstall etoys and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove etoys

Remove etoys Configurations and Data

To remove etoys configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge etoys

Remove etoys configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove etoys configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge etoys

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install etoys package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.