How To Install libcommandable-perl on Debian 12

Learn how to install libcommandable-perl on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libcommandable-perl is utilities for commandline-based programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcommandable-perl on Debian 12.

What is libcommandable-perl

libcommandable-perl is:

The Commandable distribution contains a collection of utilities extracted from various commandline-based programs, in the hope of trying to find a standard base to build these from in future.

“Commandline” does not necessarily mean “plain-text running in a terminal”; simply that the mode of operation is that the user types a textual representation of some action, and the program parses this text in order to perform it. This could equally apply to a command input text area in a GUI program.

There are three methods to install libcommandable-perl on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libcommandable-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcommandable-perl

Install libcommandable-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcommandable-perl

Install libcommandable-perl 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 libcommandable-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcommandable-perl

How To Uninstall libcommandable-perl on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libcommandable-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcommandable-perl

Uninstall libcommandable-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcommandable-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcommandable-perl

Remove libcommandable-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libcommandable-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcommandable-perl

Remove libcommandable-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcommandable-perl

Dependencies

libcommandable-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcommandable-perl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.