How To Install an on Debian 12

Learn how to install an on Debian 12 with this tutorial. an is very fast anagram generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install an on Debian 12.

What is an

an is:

Generates anagrams for a phrase supplied by the user, the words used in the anagram are taken from a specified dictionary which should contain one word per line (default:/usr/share/dict/words). It understands accented characters and should work with any alphabetic language.

There are three methods to install an 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 an Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install an

Install an Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install an using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install an

Install an 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 an using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install an

How To Uninstall an on Debian 12

To uninstall only the an package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove an

Uninstall an And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove an

Remove an Configurations and Data

To remove an configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge an

Remove an configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge an

Dependencies

an have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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