How To Install debtags on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debtags on Debian 11.
What is debtags
debtags is:
debtags extracts tag information from the apt database and makes it available to the system, either in /var/lib/debtags/debtags or via apt-xapian-index.
Package tags are categories for Debian packages.
debtags also provides some handy command to query tag information.
There are three methods to install debtags on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install debtags Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debtags using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debtags
Install debtags Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debtags using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debtags
Install debtags 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 debtags using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debtags
How To Uninstall debtags on Debian 11
To uninstall only the debtags package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debtags
Uninstall debtags And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debtags and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debtags
Remove debtags Configurations and Data
To remove debtags configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debtags
Remove debtags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debtags configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debtags
Dependencies
debtags have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debtags package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
