How to Install and Uninstall games-console Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the games-console on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "games-console" package

This is a short guide on how to install games-console on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall games-console on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the games-console package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: games-console
Source: debian-games
Version: 5
Installed-Size: 21
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: all
Depends: games-tasks (= 5)
Recommends: 2048, an, angband, animals, asciijump, bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, cbonsai, chroma-curses, colossal-cave-adventure, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gearhead, gnugo, gnuminishogi, greed, matanza, moria, nbsdgames, nethack-console, netris, nettoe, ninvaders, nsnake, nudoku, ogamesim, omega-rpg, open-adventure, pacman4console, pacvim, petris, piu-piu, robotfindskitten, slashem, sudoku, tetrinet-client, tint, tintin++, trader, tty-solitaire, vitetris
Suggests: termtris
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_5_all.deb
Size: 5488
MD5sum: f33769556585e1948cbedbb326c467cf
SHA256: 729f672b5caae8a5284190da866288bdb60097df9be3f7072a1cd91d4e91baa8