How To Install pinfo on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinfo
on Debian 9.
What is pinfo
pinfo is:
pinfo is an viewer for Info documents, which is based on ncurses. The key-commands are in the style of lynx.
There are three methods to install pinfo
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 pinfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pinfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pinfo
Install pinfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pinfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pinfo
Install pinfo 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 pinfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pinfo
How To Uninstall pinfo on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pinfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pinfo
Uninstall pinfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pinfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pinfo
Remove pinfo Configurations and Data
To remove pinfo
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pinfo
Remove pinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pinfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pinfo
Dependencies
pinfo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinfo
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.