How To Install cconv on Debian 10

Learn how to install cconv on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cconv is simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

Introduction

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

What is cconv

cconv is:

The Chinese national GB standard defines a basic set of (around 6,000) characters for use with Simplified Chinese writing that does not include many of the characters in the Taiwanese industry standard for Traditional Chinese called Big5 (around 13,000 characters in the basic set). Unicode is however a superset of both with all duplication removed down to the level of detail described above.

This tool is used for converting a UTF-8 string which combining both Simplified Chinese characters and Traditional Chinese charcters directly into one type Chinese chareacters.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cconv

Install cconv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cconv

Install cconv 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 cconv using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cconv

How To Uninstall cconv on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove cconv

Uninstall cconv And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cconv

Remove cconv Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cconv

Remove cconv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cconv

Dependencies

cconv have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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