How To Install atheist on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install atheist on Debian 9. atheist is General purpose command-line testing tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atheist on Debian 9.

What is atheist

atheist is:

Atheist allows you to specify the behaviour of your tests in a declarative way using many predefined structures (such as Task, Conditions, Daemons, etc.) and provides detailed statistics.

The programmer describes the test behaviour in a .test file and atheist runs every test found. It is possible to check and prepare the system by writing setup and teardown files that are executed after and before each test.

There are three methods to install atheist on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install atheist Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install atheist

Install atheist Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install atheist

Install atheist 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 atheist using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install atheist

How To Uninstall atheist on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove atheist

Uninstall atheist And Its Dependencies

To uninstall atheist and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove atheist

Remove atheist Configurations and Data

To remove atheist configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge atheist

Remove atheist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge atheist

Dependencies

atheist have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install atheist package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.