Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hearse on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is hearse
hearse is:
Nethack sometimes saves the level on which you die (including your
stuff, what killed you, and your ghost) in a “bones file”. These files
get loaded into later Nethack games. If you’re the only Nethack player
on your system you’ll only get bones files you created yourself.
With Hearse, you can automatically exchange bones files with other
Nethack players. When run it uploads any new bones files it finds
on your system, then downloads any bones files the server feels like
giving it. See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/hearse/ for more
information.
An important thing to note is that by default using Hearse will cause
you to end up with more bones than you otherwise would have. This
changes the game’s balance and is considered by many players to be a
mild form of cheating. You can address this by turning on the
–delete-uploaded option, but the down side is you’ll never encounter
your own bones files.
There are three methods to install hearse 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 hearse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hearse using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hearse
Install hearse Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hearse using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hearse
Install hearse 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 hearse using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hearse
How To Uninstall hearse on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the hearse package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hearse
Uninstall hearse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hearse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hearse
Remove hearse Configurations and Data
To remove hearse configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hearse
Remove hearse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hearse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hearse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hearse package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
