How To Install acorn-fdisk on Debian 12

Learn how to install acorn-fdisk on Debian 12 with this tutorial. acorn-fdisk is partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acorn-fdisk on Debian 12.

What is acorn-fdisk

acorn-fdisk is:

Acorn-fdisk allows you to edit disk partitions on Acorn machines. It understands a variety of the partition tables formats used under RISC OS, including Filecore, ICS-IDE, EESOX and Powertec.

There are three methods to install acorn-fdisk on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install acorn-fdisk Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install acorn-fdisk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install acorn-fdisk

Install acorn-fdisk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install acorn-fdisk using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install acorn-fdisk

Install acorn-fdisk Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install acorn-fdisk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install acorn-fdisk

How To Uninstall acorn-fdisk on Debian 12

To uninstall only the acorn-fdisk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove acorn-fdisk

Uninstall acorn-fdisk And Its Dependencies

To uninstall acorn-fdisk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove acorn-fdisk

Remove acorn-fdisk Configurations and Data

To remove acorn-fdisk configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge acorn-fdisk

Remove acorn-fdisk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove acorn-fdisk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acorn-fdisk

Dependencies

acorn-fdisk have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acorn-fdisk package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.