How To Install gnats-user on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnats-user on Debian 9.
What is gnats-user
gnats-user is:
GNATS is a bug-tracking tool designed for use at a central “Support Site”. Users who experience problems use electronic mail to communicate these problems to “maintainers” at that Support Site.
GNATS offers many of the same features offered by more generalized databases, including editing, querying, and basic reporting. You can access the submitting, editing, and querying functions of GNATS through provided utilities or from within GNU Emacs.
The “gnats-user” package has just the user tools for client machines. For the full installation and the central database server use the “gnats” package.
If you prefer not to use either an nfs-mounted database or the client/server model, it is possible to make a distribution that works entirely over e-mail. For more information, see gnats-info and type ‘g’ (for goto) followed by ‘mkdist’. This package is not necessary for email-only setups.
There are three methods to install gnats-user 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 gnats-user Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnats-user using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnats-user
Install gnats-user Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnats-user using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnats-user
Install gnats-user 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 gnats-user using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnats-user
How To Uninstall gnats-user on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnats-user package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnats-user
Uninstall gnats-user And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnats-user and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnats-user
Remove gnats-user Configurations and Data
To remove gnats-user configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnats-user
Remove gnats-user configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnats-user configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnats-user
Dependencies
gnats-user have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnats-user package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
