How To Install zile on Debian 10

Learn how to install zile on Debian 10 with this tutorial. zile is very small Emacs-subset editor

Introduction

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

What is zile

zile is:

GNU Zile is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Zile was written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home with Zile.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zile

Install zile Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zile

Install zile 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 zile using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zile

How To Uninstall zile on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove zile

Uninstall zile And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zile

Remove zile Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge zile

Remove zile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zile

Dependencies

zile have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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