How To Install enca on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install enca on Debian 9. enca is Extremely Naive Charset Analyser - binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enca on Debian 9.

What is enca

enca is:

Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects the character set and the encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Currently it supports Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian, Chinese, and some multibyte encodings independently on language.

There are three methods to install enca on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install enca Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install enca

Install enca Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install enca

Install enca 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 enca using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install enca

How To Uninstall enca on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove enca

Uninstall enca And Its Dependencies

To uninstall enca and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove enca

Remove enca Configurations and Data

To remove enca configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge enca

Remove enca configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge enca

Dependencies

enca have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enca package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.