How To Install lierolibre 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 lierolibre on Ubuntu.

What is lierolibre

lierolibre is:

lierolibre is an old-school earthworm action game. It is a direct fork of Liero (OpenLiero).

Features:

• 2 worms, 40 weapons, great playability, two game modes: Kill’em All and Game of Tag, plus AI-players without true intelligence!
• Dat nostalgia
• Extensions via a hidden F1 menu
  • Replays
  • Game controller support
  • Powerlevel palettes
• Ability to write game variables to plain text files
• Ability to load game variables from both EXE and plain text files
• New freely licensed audio
• Scripts to extract and repack graphics, sounds and levels

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lierolibre

Install lierolibre Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lierolibre

Install lierolibre 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 lierolibre using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lierolibre

How To Uninstall lierolibre on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove lierolibre

Uninstall lierolibre And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lierolibre

Remove lierolibre Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lierolibre

Remove lierolibre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lierolibre

Dependencies

lierolibre have the following dependencies:

• dpkg
• lierolibre-data
• libboost-program-options1.74.0
• libc6
• libconfig++9v5
• libgcc-s1
• libsdl-mixer1.2
• libsdl1.2debian
• libstdc++6
• zlib1g

References

• lierolibre website

Summary

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