How To Install prosper on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prosper on Debian 9.
What is prosper
prosper is:
Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It is written on top of the seminar class by Timothy Van Zandt. It aims at offering an environment for easily creating slides for both presentations with an overhead projector and a video projector. Slides prepared for a presentation with a computer and a video projector may integrate animation effects, incremental display, and such.
There are three methods to install prosper 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 prosper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prosper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prosper
Install prosper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prosper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prosper
Install prosper 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 prosper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prosper
How To Uninstall prosper on Debian 9
To uninstall only the prosper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prosper
Uninstall prosper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prosper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prosper
Remove prosper Configurations and Data
To remove prosper configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prosper
Remove prosper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prosper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prosper
Dependencies
prosper have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prosper package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
