How To Install only on Debian 12

Learn how to install only on Debian 12 with this tutorial. only is grep-like tool for filtering on words or lines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install only on Debian 12.

What is only

only is:

The ‘only’ command-line tool lets you search based on word patterns or line patterns like never before! Not only can you search with ‘only -l patt’ but you can select the n-th match with ‘-l n/patt/’ and the next 3 lines with ‘-l /patt/0:3’.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install only

Install only Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install only

Install only 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 only using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install only

How To Uninstall only on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove only

Uninstall only And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove only

Remove only Configurations and Data

To remove only configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge only

Remove only configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge only

Dependencies

only have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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