How To Install iselect on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iselect on Debian 10.
What is iselect
iselect is:
iSelect is an interactive line selection tool, operating via a full-screen Curses-based terminal session. It can be used either as an user interface frontend controlled by a Bourne-Shell/Perl/Tcl backend as its control script or in batch mode as a pipeline filter (usually between grep and the final executing command).
This package also includes screen-ir, a script to interactively reattach to one of several screen sessions.
There are three methods to install iselect 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 iselect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iselect using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iselect
Install iselect Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iselect using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iselect
Install iselect 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 iselect using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iselect
How To Uninstall iselect on Debian 10
To uninstall only the iselect package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iselect
Uninstall iselect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iselect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iselect
Remove iselect Configurations and Data
To remove iselect configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iselect
Remove iselect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iselect configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iselect
Dependencies
iselect have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iselect package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
