How To Install pnc on Debian 12

Learn how to install pnc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pnc is libphonenumber command-line wrapper, and GNU AWK extension

Introduction

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

What is pnc

pnc is:

pnc is a tool that allows command line user/programmers to operate on phone numbers (get validity information, reformat them, or extract numbers from a text snippet), using libphonenumber.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pnc

Install pnc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pnc

Install pnc 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 pnc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pnc

How To Uninstall pnc on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove pnc

Uninstall pnc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pnc

Remove pnc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pnc

Remove pnc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pnc

Dependencies

pnc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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