How To Install lptools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lptools
on Debian 10.
What is lptools
lptools is:
LP Tools allow you to work with Launchpad without ever having to deal with the web interface. This package provides the following tools:
- lp-attach - attach a file to a Launchpad bug
- lp-bug-dupe-properties - find duplicate Launchpad bug reports
- lp-capture-bug-counts - view summary of number of bugs for a Launchpad project
- lp-check-membership - check if a launchpad user is a member of a group
- lp-force-branch-mirror - force a new import
- lp-get-branches - check out all the branches of a team
- lp-grab-attachments - download all attachments for specified bugs or from bugs for a particular project
- lp-list-bugs - list all bugs for a project
- lp-milestone2ical - convert milestones on a project into the iCal format
- lp-milestones - list and manipulate milestones for a project
- lp-project - create and manage projects
- lp-project-upload - upload release files
- lp-recipe-status - show the status of the recipes owned by a particular user
- lp-remove-team-members - remove members from a team
- lp-review-list - list reviews for a project
- lp-review-notifier - desktop notifier about reviews that can be done
- lp-set-dup - mark duplicate bugs
- lp-shell - convenient way to launch Python interpreter already logged in to launchpad
There are three methods to install lptools
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 lptools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lptools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lptools
Install lptools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lptools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lptools
Install lptools 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 lptools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lptools
How To Uninstall lptools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lptools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lptools
Uninstall lptools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lptools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lptools
Remove lptools Configurations and Data
To remove lptools
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lptools
Remove lptools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lptools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lptools
Dependencies
lptools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lptools
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.