How To Install bb on Debian 10

Learn how to install bb on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bb is ASCII-art demo based on AAlib

Introduction

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

What is bb

bb is:

This package contains a ‘high quality audio-visual demonstration’ of ASCII-art using AAlib, a portable ASCII-art graphics library. This demonstration can be displayed in a text- or X11-terminal.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bb

Install bb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bb

Install bb 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 bb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bb

How To Uninstall bb on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove bb

Uninstall bb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bb

Remove bb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bb

Remove bb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bb

Dependencies

bb have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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