How To Install plan on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install plan on Debian 9. plan is X/Motif day planner

Introduction

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

What is plan

plan is:

Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be listed and edited. Appointments are entered with the following information (everything except the time is optional):

  • the date, time, and length of the appointment,
  • an optional text message to be printed,
  • an optional script to be executed,
  • early-warn and late-warn triggers that precede the alarm time,
  • repetitions: [n-th] weekdays, days-of-the-month, every n days, yearly,
  • optional fast command-line appointment entry,
  • flexible ways to specify holidays and vacations,
  • extensive context help,
  • multiuser capability using the netplan server, provided by the netplan package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plan

Install plan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plan

Install plan 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 plan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plan

How To Uninstall plan on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove plan

Uninstall plan And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plan

Remove plan Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plan

Remove plan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plan

Dependencies

plan have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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