How To Install bats on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats on Debian 10.
What is bats
bats is:
Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected. Bats is most useful when testing software written in Bash, but you can use it to test any UNIX program.
There are three methods to install bats 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 bats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bats
Install bats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bats
Install bats 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 bats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bats
How To Uninstall bats on Debian 10
To uninstall only the bats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bats
Uninstall bats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bats
Remove bats Configurations and Data
To remove bats configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bats
Remove bats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bats
Dependencies
bats have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.