How To Install alevt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alevt on Debian 9.
What is alevt
alevt is:
AleVT is an X11 program for browsing and searching Teletext/Videotext pages received by a compatible decoder (at the moment, bttv).
Features include:
- Multiple windows
- Page cache
- Regular expression searching
- Built-in manual
Additional command line utilities can
- receive the time from Teletext/Videotext
- capture pages and write them to disk
Teletext/Videotext is used by TV channels to transmit textual information pages (it’s transmitted via non-visible scan lines).
There are three methods to install alevt on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install alevt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alevt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alevt
Install alevt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alevt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alevt
Install alevt 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 alevt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alevt
How To Uninstall alevt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the alevt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alevt
Uninstall alevt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alevt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alevt
Remove alevt Configurations and Data
To remove alevt configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alevt
Remove alevt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alevt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alevt
Dependencies
alevt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alevt package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.