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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

By : Shea Silverman
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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

By: Shea Silverman

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Finding games via the repositories


The games mentioned above are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Linux gaming. The Raspbian repositories include a ton of packages, and there are a few commands you should know in order to search through it.

The apt-cache search keyword command will search the repos for the keyword you specify, and display a list of results in the command terminal. For example: apt-cache search game will display pages of results. You can then whittle down the results by specifying multiple keywords. Let's say we want to find a Pac-Man clone: apt-cache search pacman will return a list of games that include Pac-Man in the description. The apt-cache search pacman console command will further refine the search and will return one result that matches your query, pacman4consol e.