How To Install wims on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install wims on Debian 11. wims is server for educational content

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wims on Debian 11.

What is wims

wims is:

The WWW Interactive Multipurpose Server is an educational platform originally developed for mathematics but now also supporting subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and languages.

WIMS features a rich set of resources and exercises either for autodidactical use or for training classes, including:

  • exercises with automatic feedback and correction, allowing the learners to work at their own pace;
  • interactive exercises with randomly assigned data, allowing the learners to work on the same type of exercise but with different data and as often as they wish;
  • exercises with an automatic scoring system, which enhances learner motivation;
  • user-friendly graphics and calculation tools;
  • courses and documents with hyperlinks to the exercise pool; examples in the courses can be made random, so the student can get more than one instance of an illustration for tricky concepts;
  • support for exams with pre-published contents. As each individual exam will have randomly chosen data, training is possible but writing each response in advance is not.

This package contains the WIMS FastCGI server, serving Open Exercise Format (OEF) documents. OEF is a very high-level language which allows authors to focus on pedagogical issues.

There are three methods to install wims on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wims Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wims

Install wims Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wims

Install wims 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 wims using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wims

How To Uninstall wims on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove wims

Uninstall wims And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wims and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wims

Remove wims Configurations and Data

To remove wims configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wims

Remove wims configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wims

Dependencies

wims have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wims package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.