How To Install lifelines-reports on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install lifelines-reports on Debian 9. lifelines-reports is reports for lifelines, a genealogy software system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lifelines-reports on Debian 9.

What is lifelines-reports

lifelines-reports is:

Lifelines has a very powerful reporting language. This package includes all “standard” reports, which come with the official Lifelines distribution.

There are three methods to install lifelines-reports 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 lifelines-reports Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lifelines-reports

Install lifelines-reports Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lifelines-reports

Install lifelines-reports 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 lifelines-reports using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lifelines-reports

How To Uninstall lifelines-reports on Debian 9

To uninstall only the lifelines-reports package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lifelines-reports

Uninstall lifelines-reports And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lifelines-reports

Remove lifelines-reports Configurations and Data

To remove lifelines-reports configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lifelines-reports

Remove lifelines-reports configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lifelines-reports

Dependencies

lifelines-reports have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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