How to install Tanglet on Debian 8.3

How to install Tanglet on Debian 8.3

The Tanglet is a open source word finding game that contains a single player and it is based on Boggle. The objective of the game is to find out as many words as the user can find before the time runs out. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Tanglet on Debian 8.3.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, use the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list   

The sources.list configuration file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next execute the apt-get update command to update the apt sources.list configuration file changes in the target system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]     
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease          
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                                          
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                                       
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]                               
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]                               
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]              
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,790 kB]                            
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]                        
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]                        
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]             
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                       
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
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Fetched 23.5 MB in 8min 52s (44.1 kB/s)                                                         
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install the tanglet package by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install tanglet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  tanglet-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tanglet tanglet-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 292 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,526 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,943 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main tanglet-data all 1.2.2-2 [7,299 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main tanglet amd64 1.2.2-2 [227 kB]                  
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Setting up tanglet-data (1.2.2-2) ...
Setting up tanglet (1.2.2-2) ...

Once the package is installed, click on the Activities window and type the package name in the search bar. Click on the icon to run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Tanglet also supports online game from any device such as Chromebook, laptop, tablet and even smartphone.