Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is alienblaster
alienblaster is:
Your mission is simple: Stop the invasion of the aliens and blast them!
Alien Blaster is a classic 2D shoot ’em up featuring lots of different
weapons, special items, aliens to blast and a big bad boss.
It supports both a single player mode and a cooperative two player mode
for two persons playing on one computer.
There are three methods to install alienblaster 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 alienblaster Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alienblaster using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alienblaster
Install alienblaster Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alienblaster using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alienblaster
Install alienblaster 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 alienblaster using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alienblaster
How To Uninstall alienblaster on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the alienblaster package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alienblaster
Uninstall alienblaster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alienblaster and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alienblaster
Remove alienblaster Configurations and Data
To remove alienblaster configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alienblaster
Remove alienblaster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alienblaster configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alienblaster
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alienblaster package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
