How To Install hovercraft on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install hovercraft on Debian 11. hovercraft is generator for impress.js presentations from reStructuredText

Introduction

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

What is hovercraft

hovercraft is:

Hovercraft provides the convenience of reStructuredText together with the capability of impress.js for spectacular presentations. With that, slides for fancy presentations including pan, zooming, and even 3d rotating are written as reST sources and then get generated a into HTML output which a standard browser is capable to display.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hovercraft

Install hovercraft Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hovercraft

Install hovercraft 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 hovercraft using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hovercraft

How To Uninstall hovercraft on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove hovercraft

Uninstall hovercraft And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hovercraft

Remove hovercraft Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hovercraft

Remove hovercraft configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hovercraft

Dependencies

hovercraft have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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