How To Install bootstrap-icons on Debian 12

Learn how to install bootstrap-icons on Debian 12 with this tutorial. bootstrap-icons is icon library for Bootstrap (SVG files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bootstrap-icons on Debian 12.

What is bootstrap-icons

bootstrap-icons is:

Bootstrap Icons is a icon library with over 1'600 icons to use with or without the Bootstrap HTML toolkit.

This package contains the SVG files.

There are three methods to install bootstrap-icons 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 bootstrap-icons Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bootstrap-icons

Install bootstrap-icons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bootstrap-icons

Install bootstrap-icons 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 bootstrap-icons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bootstrap-icons

How To Uninstall bootstrap-icons on Debian 12

To uninstall only the bootstrap-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bootstrap-icons

Uninstall bootstrap-icons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bootstrap-icons

Remove bootstrap-icons Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bootstrap-icons

Remove bootstrap-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bootstrap-icons

Dependencies

bootstrap-icons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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