How to Install and Uninstall games-emulator Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "games-emulator" package

This tutorial shows how to install games-emulator on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall games-emulator on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                games-emulator
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the games-emulator package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: games-emulator
Source: debian-games
Version: 4
Installed-Size: 26
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: all
Depends: games-tasks (= 4)
Recommends: blastem, cen64, desmume, dosbox, fceux, fs-uae-arcade, gngb, hatari, higan, mame, mednaffe, mgba-sdl, mupen64plus-ui-console, nestopia, osmose-emulator, pcsxr, retroarch, stella, virtualjaguar, visualboyadvance, yabause
Suggests: dolphin-emu, efp, gnome-video-arcade, wine, zsnes
Description: Debian's emulators for games
Description-md5: b462f8a53dbd719ac1e25de3cc0042e6
Homepage: https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/
Tag: role::metapackage, use::gameplaying
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/debian-games/games-emulator_4_all.deb
Size: 10148
MD5sum: d61c2c9970a75971544f3413afdd1ff0
SHA256: 2a2917eaa1e596886e84c0efd2afd5c39bc6146de1ad7993f4b29de9072c5d9c