How To Install darcs-monitor on Debian 10

Learn how to install darcs-monitor on Debian 10 with this tutorial. darcs-monitor is Darcs add-on that sends mail about newly pushed changes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs-monitor on Debian 10.

What is darcs-monitor

darcs-monitor is:

It is often desirable to send mail about new changes to software to a mailing list as soon as they are committed to a version control repository. Darcs-monitor adds this functionality to Darcs, an advanced revision control system.

Darcs-monitor is most commonly used as a Darcs apply post-hook, so that email is sent as soon as changes are pushed to the repository under monitoring.

Mails sent by darcs-monitor are configurable, and they can contain the diff of the changes, as well as change metadata.

You will need a mail transport agent (MTA) such as Exim in all but the most unusual situations.

There are three methods to install darcs-monitor 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 darcs-monitor Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install darcs-monitor

Install darcs-monitor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install darcs-monitor

Install darcs-monitor 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 darcs-monitor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install darcs-monitor

How To Uninstall darcs-monitor on Debian 10

To uninstall only the darcs-monitor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove darcs-monitor

Uninstall darcs-monitor And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove darcs-monitor

Remove darcs-monitor Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge darcs-monitor

Remove darcs-monitor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge darcs-monitor

Dependencies

darcs-monitor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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