How To Install botch on Debian 10

Learn how to install botch on Debian 10 with this tutorial. botch is tools to create and analyse dependency graphs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install botch on Debian 10.

What is botch

botch is:

botch is a collection of tools to create and analyze dependency graphs. This task is facilitated by a range of individual tools which use the deb822 and graphml formats to exchange information with each other.

The tools installed by this package provide these features:

  • analyze graphs
  • transform Packages and Sources control files
  • create graphs of different types
  • analysis of Packages and Sources control files
  • handling of botch-internal formats
  • dose3 wrappers
  • set operations on Packages or Sources files
  • create build orders
  • conversion of graphs
  • shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations
  • extract regions from graphs

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install botch

Install botch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install botch

Install botch 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 botch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install botch

How To Uninstall botch on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove botch

Uninstall botch And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove botch

Remove botch Configurations and Data

To remove botch configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge botch

Remove botch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge botch

Dependencies

botch have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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