How To Install easygen on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install easygen on Debian 11. easygen is Easy to use universal code/text generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install easygen on Debian 11.

What is easygen

easygen is:

Command easygen is an easy to use universal code/text generator.

It can be used as a text, html or a code generator for arbitrary purposes with arbitrary data and templates. It can be used as a GSL replacement, as it

  • is more easy to define driving data, in form of YML instead of XML
  • has more powerful template engine that based on Go template. You can even write your own function in Go to customize your template.

You can even use easygen as a generic Go template testing tool.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install easygen

Install easygen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install easygen

Install easygen 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 easygen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install easygen

How To Uninstall easygen on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove easygen

Uninstall easygen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall easygen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove easygen

Remove easygen Configurations and Data

To remove easygen configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge easygen

Remove easygen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge easygen

Dependencies

easygen have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install easygen package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.