How To Install bats-support on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats-support on Debian 12.
What is bats-support
bats-support is:
bats-support is a supporting library providing common functions to test helper libraries written for Bats.
Features:
- error reporting
- output formatting
- language tools
There are three methods to install bats-support on Debian 12. 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-support 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-support using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bats-support
Install bats-support Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bats-support using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bats-support
Install bats-support 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-support using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bats-support
How To Uninstall bats-support on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bats-support package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bats-support
Uninstall bats-support And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bats-support and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bats-support
Remove bats-support Configurations and Data
To remove bats-support configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bats-support
Remove bats-support configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bats-support configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bats-support
Dependencies
bats-support have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bats-support package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.