How To Install discount on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount on Debian 11.
What is discount
discount is:
Discount is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown markup language. It implements all of the language described in the Markdown syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.
This package provides the discount executables.
There are three methods to install discount 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 discount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install discount using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install discount
Install discount Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install discount using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install discount
Install discount 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 discount using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install discount
How To Uninstall discount on Debian 11
To uninstall only the discount package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove discount
Uninstall discount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall discount and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove discount
Remove discount Configurations and Data
To remove discount configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge discount
Remove discount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove discount configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge discount
Dependencies
discount have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
