How To Install efte on Debian 10

Learn how to install efte on Debian 10 with this tutorial. efte is Advanced lightweight configurable editor

Introduction

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

What is efte

efte is:

eFTE is an advanced programmers editor with goals of being lightweight, yet totally configurable. Support for user defined programming languages, menu systems and key bindings are provided with many common defaults already defined.

eFTE is still a new project, however, extended from the FTE editor which was first released in 1995, so eFTE is tried and true with many features for the programmer/text editor.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install efte

Install efte Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install efte

Install efte 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 efte using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install efte

How To Uninstall efte on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove efte

Uninstall efte And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove efte

Remove efte Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge efte

Remove efte configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge efte

Dependencies

efte have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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