How To Install ascii on Debian 10

Learn how to install ascii on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ascii is interactive ASCII name and synonym chart

Introduction

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

What is ascii

ascii is:

The ascii utility provides easy conversion between various byte representations and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character table. It knows about a wide variety of hex, binary, octal, Teletype mnemonic, ISO/ECMA code point, slang names, XML entity names, and other representations. Given any one on the command line, it will try to display all others. Called with no arguments it displays a handy small ASCII chart.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ascii

Install ascii Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ascii

Install ascii 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 ascii using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ascii

How To Uninstall ascii on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ascii

Uninstall ascii And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ascii

Remove ascii Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ascii

Remove ascii configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ascii

Dependencies

ascii have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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