How To Install beep on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Debian 9. beep is advanced pc-speaker beeper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Debian 9.

What is beep

beep is:

beep does what you’d expect: it beeps. But unlike printf “\a” beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow more granularity than one has otherwise. It is controlled completely through command line options. It’s not supposed to be complex, and it isn’t - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever else it gets hacked into) much more informative.

There are three methods to install beep 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 beep Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install beep using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install beep

Install beep Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install beep using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install beep

Install beep 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 beep using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beep

How To Uninstall beep on Debian 9

To uninstall only the beep package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove beep

Uninstall beep And Its Dependencies

To uninstall beep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beep

Remove beep Configurations and Data

To remove beep configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge beep

Remove beep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove beep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beep

Dependencies

beep have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.