How To Install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml on Debian 10

Learn how to install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml on Debian 10 with this tutorial. golang-github-pelletier-go-toml is Go library for the TOML language – commandline programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml on Debian 10.

What is golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

golang-github-pelletier-go-toml is:

This library supports TOML (Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language) version v1.0.0.

TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that’s easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages.

This package contains the two commandline programs tomll and tomljson.

There are three methods to install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml 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 golang-github-pelletier-go-toml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml 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 golang-github-pelletier-go-toml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

How To Uninstall golang-github-pelletier-go-toml on Debian 10

To uninstall only the golang-github-pelletier-go-toml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Uninstall golang-github-pelletier-go-toml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall golang-github-pelletier-go-toml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Remove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml Configurations and Data

To remove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Remove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove golang-github-pelletier-go-toml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang-github-pelletier-go-toml

Dependencies

golang-github-pelletier-go-toml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-github-pelletier-go-toml package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.