How To Install gotail on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gotail
on Debian 11.
What is gotail
gotail is:
gotail is a Go implementation of the tail utility (GNU coreutils).
There are three methods to install gotail
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 gotail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gotail
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gotail
Install gotail Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gotail
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gotail
Install gotail 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 gotail
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gotail
How To Uninstall gotail on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gotail
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gotail
Uninstall gotail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gotail
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gotail
Remove gotail Configurations and Data
To remove gotail
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gotail
Remove gotail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gotail
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gotail
Dependencies
gotail have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gotail
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.