How To Install libtextwrap1 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap1 on Debian 9. libtextwrap1 is text-wrapping library with i18n - runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap1 on Debian 9.

What is libtextwrap1

libtextwrap1 is:

Text-wrapping (or line-folding) library for displaying a string on the terminal. This supports i18n (internationalization), i.e, automatic locale-encoding detection, multibyte encoding (such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, and so on), fullwidth characters (occupying two columns per one character, like CJK Ideogram), combining characters (occupying zero columns per one character, like Thai and diacritical marks), and languages which do not use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and Japanese).

There are three methods to install libtextwrap1 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 libtextwrap1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtextwrap1

Install libtextwrap1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtextwrap1

Install libtextwrap1 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 libtextwrap1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtextwrap1

How To Uninstall libtextwrap1 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libtextwrap1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtextwrap1

Uninstall libtextwrap1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtextwrap1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtextwrap1

Remove libtextwrap1 Configurations and Data

To remove libtextwrap1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtextwrap1

Remove libtextwrap1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtextwrap1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtextwrap1

Dependencies

libtextwrap1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.