How To Install visualboyadvance 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 visualboyadvance on Ubuntu.
What is visualboyadvance
visualboyadvance is:
VisualBoyAdvance is a Game Boy Advance emulator that works with many ROMs that are publically available. It features save states (like those that are available in ZSNES), full screen support, joystick support, the all-important ‘speedup emulation’ key for impatient gamers, and a lot more.
It also contains many useful tools for Game Boy Advance developers, such as powerful GDB and gprof integration.
This package contains a version of VisualBoyAdvance compiled with the original GUI-less SDL interface.
There are three methods to install visualboyadvance 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 visualboyadvance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install visualboyadvance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install visualboyadvance
Install visualboyadvance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install visualboyadvance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install visualboyadvance
Install visualboyadvance 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 visualboyadvance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install visualboyadvance
How To Uninstall visualboyadvance on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the visualboyadvance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove visualboyadvance
Uninstall visualboyadvance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall visualboyadvance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove visualboyadvance
Remove visualboyadvance Configurations and Data
To remove visualboyadvance configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge visualboyadvance
Remove visualboyadvance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove visualboyadvance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge visualboyadvance
Dependencies
visualboyadvance have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.