How To Install beef on Debian 10

Learn how to install beef on Debian 10 with this tutorial. beef is flexible Brainfuck interpreter

Introduction

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

What is beef

beef is:

Beef is an interpreter for the Brainfuck programming language.

Its main goals are to be comfortable for the user and to run most Brainfuck programs unchanged; speed is generally quite good.

Beef performs thorough error checking to make sure malformed programs are not executed; it also supports a bunch of command-line options that can be used for configuration or compatibility purposes.

If GVFS is installed, Beef can use any available backend as either output or (where it makes sense) input source. GNU readline is used for interactive input.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install beef

Install beef Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install beef

Install beef 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 beef using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beef

How To Uninstall beef on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove beef

Uninstall beef And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beef

Remove beef Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge beef

Remove beef configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beef

Dependencies

beef have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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