How To Install fortunes-eo-ascii on Debian 10

Learn how to install fortunes-eo-ascii on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fortunes-eo-ascii is Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes-eo-ascii on Debian 10.

What is fortunes-eo-ascii

fortunes-eo-ascii is:

Datumbazo kun esperantlingvaj mesagxoj por la fortune programo. Enhavas mesagxojn el Proverbaro Esperanta de Zamenhof, en ASCII (post-x) kodo.

Database with esperanto fortune cookies. Contains messages from Proverbaro Esperanta by Zamenhof, in ASCII (post-x) encoding.

There are three methods to install fortunes-eo-ascii 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 fortunes-eo-ascii Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fortunes-eo-ascii

Install fortunes-eo-ascii Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fortunes-eo-ascii using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fortunes-eo-ascii

Install fortunes-eo-ascii 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 fortunes-eo-ascii using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fortunes-eo-ascii

How To Uninstall fortunes-eo-ascii on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fortunes-eo-ascii package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fortunes-eo-ascii

Uninstall fortunes-eo-ascii And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fortunes-eo-ascii

Remove fortunes-eo-ascii Configurations and Data

To remove fortunes-eo-ascii configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fortunes-eo-ascii

Remove fortunes-eo-ascii configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fortunes-eo-ascii configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fortunes-eo-ascii

Dependencies

fortunes-eo-ascii have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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