How To Install crawl-tiles on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crawl-tiles on Ubuntu.

What is `crawl-tiles`

crawl-tiles is:

Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of games like Rogue, Hack, and Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.

This is the graphical (tiles) version.

This is the Stone Soup version of Dungeon Crawl.

There are three methods to install crawl-tiles on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install crawl-tiles Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install crawl-tiles

Install crawl-tiles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install crawl-tiles

Install crawl-tiles 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 crawl-tiles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crawl-tiles

How To Uninstall crawl-tiles on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the crawl-tiles package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crawl-tiles

Uninstall crawl-tiles And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crawl-tiles

Remove crawl-tiles Configurations and Data

To remove crawl-tiles configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crawl-tiles

Remove crawl-tiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crawl-tiles

Dependencies

crawl-tiles have the following dependencies:

References

crawl-tiles website

Summary

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