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How To Install game-data-packager on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
5 minutes  • 988 words

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install game-data-packager on Ubuntu.

What is game-data-packager

game-data-packager is:

Various games are divided into two logical parts: engine and data. Often the engine and data are licensed in different ways, such that the engine can be distributed in Debian but the data cannot.

game-data-packager is a tool which builds .deb files for game data which cannot be distributed in Debian (such as commercial game data).

At the moment, game-data-packager has support for building .deb files for:

There are three methods to install game-data-packager 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 game-data-packager Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install game-data-packager

Install game-data-packager Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install game-data-packager using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install game-data-packager

Install game-data-packager 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 game-data-packager using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install game-data-packager

How To Uninstall game-data-packager on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the game-data-packager package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove game-data-packager

Uninstall game-data-packager And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove game-data-packager

Remove game-data-packager Configurations and Data

To remove game-data-packager configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge game-data-packager

Remove game-data-packager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge game-data-packager

Dependencies

game-data-packager have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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

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