How To Install qtads 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 qtads on Ubuntu.

What is `qtads`

qtads is:

This package provides an interpreter for TADS game files, using a Qt interface. It can run either TADS 2 games (which have an extension of .gam) or TADS 3 games (which have an extension of .t3). See http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXtads.html for a large collection of available TADS games.

This interpreter supports HTML-TADS multimedia features. Other features include:

Full Unicode support for TADS 3 and HTML TADS games.
Full text justification.
Support for multiple user configurations, which you can switch between at runtime.

TADS, the Text Adventure Development System, is a system for writing and playing interactive fiction games. This means that the primary method for interacting with the game is to type in commands, to which the game produces a response in prose – similar to Infocom’s games from the 1980’s.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install qtads

Install qtads Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qtads

Install qtads 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 qtads using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qtads

How To Uninstall qtads on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove qtads

Uninstall qtads And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qtads

Remove qtads Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge qtads

Remove qtads configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qtads

Dependencies

qtads have the following dependencies:

References

qtads website

Summary

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