How To Install pup on Debian 12

Learn how to install pup on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pup is command-line HTML processor

Introduction

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

What is pup

pup is:

Pup is a command-line tool for processing HTML. It reads from stdin, prints to stdout, and allows the user to filter parts of the page using CSS selectors.

Inspired by jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/), pup aims to be a fast and flexible way of exploring HTML from the terminal.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pup

Install pup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pup

Install pup 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 pup using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pup

How To Uninstall pup on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove pup

Uninstall pup And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pup

Remove pup Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pup

Remove pup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pup

Dependencies

pup have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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