How To Install cupt on Debian 10

Learn how to install cupt on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cupt is flexible package manager – console interface

Introduction

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

What is cupt

cupt is:

This package provides a console interface to Cupt library, which implements high-level package manager for Debian and derivatives. Cupt is written with flexibility and reliability in mind and uses dpkg as the back-end.

Cupt uses the same APT infrastructure, e.g. index files, deb cache archive files, configuration files. It understands some of widely used APT options.

Some features:

  • strict full-case resolver;
  • resolver reasons tracking;
  • command-line and ‘cupt::*’ option name checker;
  • case-sensitive search;
  • pinning by source package name;
  • pinning by package groups using shell-like patterns;
  • configurable ‘depends’ and ‘rdepends’ subcommands;
  • ‘satisfy’ subcommand;
  • support of LZMA-compressed indexes;
  • source versions synchronization;
  • ‘shell’ subcommand (to get command history, search etc. working, install the package ’libreadline7’);
  • integration with debdelta (to get it, install the package ‘debdelta’);
  • system snapshots (needs packages ‘dpkg-dev’ and ‘dpkg-repack’).

Its interface is mostly like apt-get/aptitude console interface.

Cupt has built-in support for APT repositories using the file:// or copy:// URL schemas. For access to remote repositories using HTTP or FTP, install a download method such as libcupt4-2-downloadmethod-curl.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cupt

Install cupt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cupt

Install cupt 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 cupt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cupt

How To Uninstall cupt on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove cupt

Uninstall cupt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cupt

Remove cupt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cupt

Remove cupt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cupt

Dependencies

cupt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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