How To Install aptitude-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aptitude-common on Debian 9.
What is aptitude-common
aptitude-common is:
aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
This package contains the data files and translations used by aptitude.
There are three methods to install aptitude-common 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 aptitude-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aptitude-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aptitude-common
Install aptitude-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aptitude-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aptitude-common
Install aptitude-common 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 aptitude-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aptitude-common
How To Uninstall aptitude-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the aptitude-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aptitude-common
Uninstall aptitude-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aptitude-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aptitude-common
Remove aptitude-common Configurations and Data
To remove aptitude-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aptitude-common
Remove aptitude-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aptitude-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aptitude-common
Dependencies
aptitude-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aptitude-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.