How To Install langdrill on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install langdrill on Debian 11. langdrill is language drills to test vocabulary

Introduction

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

What is langdrill

langdrill is:

langdrill is a helper for testing your foreign language vocabulary. It uses GTK+ toolkit and VDK (a C++ wrapper around GTK+). langdrill looks similar to JavaDrill.

Support for displaying Japanese characters is included. For this, Japanese fonts must be installed on your system, for instance the xfonts-intl-japanese package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install langdrill

Install langdrill Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install langdrill

Install langdrill 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 langdrill using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install langdrill

How To Uninstall langdrill on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove langdrill

Uninstall langdrill And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove langdrill

Remove langdrill Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge langdrill

Remove langdrill configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge langdrill

Dependencies

langdrill have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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