How To Install moap on Debian 10

Learn how to install moap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. moap is Swiss army knife for project maintainers and developers

Introduction

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

What is moap

moap is:

moap aims to help in keeping you in the flow of maintaining, developing and releasing your project, automating whatever tasks can be automated.

Features: Parse DOAP files and:

  • submit releases to Freshmeat
  • send out release announcement mails
  • create iCal and RSS release feeds from DOAP file(s)
  • template them using Genshi or Cheetah
  • look up project home page rank on Google and Yahoo for given queries

Version control tools:

  • currently supports Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, SVN
  • maintain ignore lists
  • prepare ChangeLog entry based on local diff, using ctags
  • check in based on ChangeLog entry
  • show diff based on last ChangeLog entry

Bug tracker tools:

  • show individual bugs and queries from trac and bugzilla

  • get list of contributors from ChangeLog

  • bash completion

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install moap

Install moap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install moap

Install moap 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 moap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install moap

How To Uninstall moap on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove moap

Uninstall moap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moap

Remove moap Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge moap

Remove moap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moap

Dependencies

moap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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