How To Install aptitude-robot on Debian 10

Learn how to install aptitude-robot on Debian 10 with this tutorial. aptitude-robot is Automate package choice management

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aptitude-robot on Debian 10.

What is aptitude-robot

aptitude-robot is:

Framework to use aptitude for automated package management including unattended upgrade, installation, removal, hold, etc. Allows you to automate what you would manually do with aptitude.

There are three methods to install aptitude-robot on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install aptitude-robot Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aptitude-robot

Install aptitude-robot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install aptitude-robot

Install aptitude-robot 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 aptitude-robot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aptitude-robot

How To Uninstall aptitude-robot on Debian 10

To uninstall only the aptitude-robot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aptitude-robot

Uninstall aptitude-robot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aptitude-robot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aptitude-robot

Remove aptitude-robot Configurations and Data

To remove aptitude-robot configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aptitude-robot

Remove aptitude-robot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aptitude-robot

Dependencies

aptitude-robot have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aptitude-robot package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.