How To Install stella 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 stella on Ubuntu.
What is stella
stella is:
Stella is a portable emulator of the old Atari 2600 video-game console. You can play most Atari 2600 games with it.
Stella’s features include:
- emulation of Atari 2600 joysticks, keyboards, paddles and driving controllers using the host system’s input peripherals;
- emulation of trackballs, joysticks, booster grips, driving controllers and the Amiga Mouse using the host system’s mouse;
- support for real Atari 2600 controllers using the Stelladaptor, 2600-daptor or 2600-daptor II;
- support for real Atari 7800 controllers using the 2600-daptor II;
- support for the speech portion of a real AtariVox device;
- support for Supercharger single-load and multi-load games;
- emulation of CRT TV features, including texturing, colour bleed, RF noise and phosphor burn-off (requires OpenGL).
An extensive debugger is included, with the Distella disassembler.
Note that this is not isee systems’ STELLA modeling, simulation and analysis tool.
There are three methods to install stella 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 stella Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stella using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stella
Install stella Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stella using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stella
Install stella 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 stella using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stella
How To Uninstall stella on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the stella package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stella
Uninstall stella And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stella and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stella
Remove stella Configurations and Data
To remove stella configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stella
Remove stella configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stella configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stella
Dependencies
stella have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stella package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.