How To Install debdry on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debdry on Debian 10.
What is debdry
debdry is:
debdry is for debian/ directories what debhelper7 is for debian/rules.
It applies the Don’t Repeat Yourself idea to packaging, attempting to reuse as much as possible of upstream’s metadata and standard packaging practices.
debdry runs an appropriate auto-debianisation tool for a given source directory, then applies manual overrides from a debian.in directory.
debdry supports the following types of packages (in brackets you will find extra packages that need to be installed for each type of package):
- Perl [dh-make-perl]
- Python [python-stdeb, python3-stdeb]
- Ruby [gem2deb]
- Haskell [cabal-debian]
There are three methods to install debdry 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 debdry Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debdry using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debdry
Install debdry Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debdry using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debdry
Install debdry 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 debdry using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debdry
How To Uninstall debdry on Debian 10
To uninstall only the debdry package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debdry
Uninstall debdry And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debdry and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debdry
Remove debdry Configurations and Data
To remove debdry configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debdry
Remove debdry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debdry configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debdry
Dependencies
debdry have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debdry package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
