How To Install bsdowl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdowl
on Debian 12.
What is bsdowl
bsdowl is:
This collection of BSD Make directives aims at providing a highly portable universal build system targeting modern UNIX systems and supporting common or less common languages.
It can already be used to:
- Prepare and publish TeX documents;
- Develop TeX macros with NOWEB;
- Develop OCaml software;
- Maintain and deploy FreeBSD workstation configuration files;
- Prepare static website with ONSGMLS.
It is well tested under:
- Mac OS X, version 10.6.8 and above
- FreeBSD, version 9.0 and above
- Debian Jessie and newer
There are three methods to install bsdowl
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 bsdowl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdowl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bsdowl
Install bsdowl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdowl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bsdowl
Install bsdowl 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 bsdowl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bsdowl
How To Uninstall bsdowl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bsdowl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bsdowl
Uninstall bsdowl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bsdowl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bsdowl
Remove bsdowl Configurations and Data
To remove bsdowl
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bsdowl
Remove bsdowl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bsdowl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bsdowl
Dependencies
bsdowl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdowl
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.