How To Install advi on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install advi on Debian 10.
What is advi
advi is:
Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and presenter written in Objective Caml with some eye candy effects for presentation, support for interactive demonstrations, and embedding of arbitrary applications within the presentation (hence the Active adjective of the presenter :).
Active-DVI does not (yet) support postscript fonts (see the README.Debian for more details).
Active-DVI also has the ability to run embedded commands, which may cause security problems when viewing untrusted DVI files. Make sure to read the README.Debian for more information.
There are three methods to install advi on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install advi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install advi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install advi
Install advi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install advi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install advi
Install advi 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 advi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install advi
How To Uninstall advi on Debian 10
To uninstall only the advi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove advi
Uninstall advi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall advi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove advi
Remove advi Configurations and Data
To remove advi configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge advi
Remove advi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove advi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge advi
Dependencies
advi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install advi package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.