How To Install tetradraw on Debian 10

Learn how to install tetradraw on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tetradraw is ANSI drawing and viewing utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tetradraw on Debian 10.

What is tetradraw

tetradraw is:

tetradraw is an easy to use drawing utility that gives you an ease access to the high characters like smileys, card signs and the well known single and double frame line characters but much more. Also the changing of foreground and background colors is not hard to do.

tetraview is the viewer for such produced images.

There are three methods to install tetradraw on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tetradraw Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tetradraw

Install tetradraw Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tetradraw

Install tetradraw 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 tetradraw using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tetradraw

How To Uninstall tetradraw on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tetradraw

Uninstall tetradraw And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tetradraw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tetradraw

Remove tetradraw Configurations and Data

To remove tetradraw configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tetradraw

Remove tetradraw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tetradraw

Dependencies

tetradraw have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tetradraw package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.