How To Install podbrowser on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podbrowser on Debian 9.
What is podbrowser
podbrowser is:
PodBrowser is a documentation browser for Perl. You can view the documentation for Perl’s builtin functions, its “perldoc” pages, pragmatic modules and the default and user-installed modules.
PodBrowser is a more feature-complete version of podviewer, which comes with libgtk2-podviewer-perl.
There are three methods to install podbrowser 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 podbrowser Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install podbrowser using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install podbrowser
Install podbrowser Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install podbrowser using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install podbrowser
Install podbrowser 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 podbrowser using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install podbrowser
How To Uninstall podbrowser on Debian 9
To uninstall only the podbrowser package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove podbrowser
Uninstall podbrowser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall podbrowser and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove podbrowser
Remove podbrowser Configurations and Data
To remove podbrowser configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge podbrowser
Remove podbrowser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove podbrowser configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge podbrowser
Dependencies
podbrowser have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libgtk2-perl
- libgtk2-gladexml-perl
- libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl
- libgnome2-perl
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- gnome-icon-theme
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podbrowser package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
