How to Install and Uninstall games-console Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "games-console" package

This is a short guide on how to install games-console on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                games-console
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "games-console" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall games-console on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                games-console
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the games-console package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: games-console
Source: debian-games
Version: 3
Installed-Size: 25
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: all
Depends: games-tasks (= 3)
Recommends: aajm, an, angband, animals, asciijump, bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, colossal-cave-adventure, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gearhead, gnugo, gnuminishogi, greed, matanza, moria, nethack-console, netris, nettoe, ninvaders, nsnake, nudoku, ogamesim, omega-rpg, open-adventure, pacman4console, petris, piu-piu, robotfindskitten, slashem, sudoku, tetrinet-client, tint, tintin++, vitetris, zivot
Description: Debian's console games
Description-md5: 1f81481a28a50b7d38297c4420db7e4f
Homepage: https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/
Tag: game::TODO, interface::text-mode, role::metapackage, role::program,
use::gameplaying
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/debian-games/games-console_3_all.deb
Size: 9380
MD5sum: 85655f66d7e0c7c084e31ccd38f887e5
SHA256: 2568d73cf60dd4256d73e699cbb95318f68173a788bd80d1e0f6fc35e0cf8673