How To Install onscripter 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 onscripter on Ubuntu.

What is `onscripter`

onscripter is:

ONScripter is a game engine compatible to NScripter, which is used to create and perform visual novel games.

This package provides both the standard version which is for Japanese and the 1-byte version which is able to run English text games.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install onscripter

Install onscripter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install onscripter

Install onscripter 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 onscripter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install onscripter

How To Uninstall onscripter on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove onscripter

Uninstall onscripter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove onscripter

Remove onscripter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge onscripter

Remove onscripter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onscripter

Dependencies

onscripter have the following dependencies:

References

onscripter website

Summary

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