How To Install cpants-lint on Debian 10

Learn how to install cpants-lint on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cpants-lint is commandline frontend to Module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpants-lint on Debian 10.

What is cpants-lint

cpants-lint is:

cpants_lint checks the Kwalitee of a CPAN distribution. More exact, it checks how a given tarball will be rated on http://cpants.perl.org, without needing to upload it first.

This package provides the cpants_lint commandline tool.

There are three methods to install cpants-lint 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 cpants-lint Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpants-lint

Install cpants-lint Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cpants-lint

Install cpants-lint 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 cpants-lint using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cpants-lint

How To Uninstall cpants-lint on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cpants-lint package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cpants-lint

Uninstall cpants-lint And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpants-lint

Remove cpants-lint Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cpants-lint

Remove cpants-lint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpants-lint

Dependencies

cpants-lint have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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