How To Install tilem on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

3 minutes • 505 words

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tilem on Ubuntu.

What is `tilem`

tilem is:

TilEm is an emulator and debugger for Texas Instruments’ Z80-based graphing calculators. It can emulate any of the following calculator models:

TI-73 / TI-73 Explorer
TI-76.fr
TI-81
TI-82
TI-82 STATS / TI-82 STATS.fr
TI-83
TI-83 Plus / TI-83 Plus Silver Edition / TI-83 Plus.fr
TI-84 Plus / TI-84 Plus Silver Edition / TI-84 pocket.fr
TI-85
TI-86 TilEm fully supports all known versions of the above calculators (as of 2012), and attempts to reproduce the behavior of the original calculator hardware as faithfully as possible. In addition, TilEm can emulate the TI-Nspire’s virtual TI-84 Plus mode. This is currently experimental, and some programs may not work correctly.

TilEm runs on the X Window System on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like platforms, as well as on Microsoft Windows, and any other platform supported by the GTK+ library. In addition to the emulation, TilEm 2 provide a lot of extra features, such as:

Fully featured debugger
Grabbing screenshots and recording gif (animations)
Virtual linking (through libticables)
Flash writing and erasing
Application and OS loading
Scripting using macros

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tilem

Install tilem Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tilem

Install tilem 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 tilem using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tilem

How To Uninstall tilem on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove tilem

Uninstall tilem And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tilem

Remove tilem Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tilem

Remove tilem configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tilem

Dependencies

tilem have the following dependencies:

References

tilem website

Summary

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