How To Install bibtool on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bibtool
on Debian 9.
What is bibtool
bibtool is:
BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities – and intentions – of BibTeX.
BibTool manipulates BibTeX database files through the command line front-end bibtool which accepts numerous options. Modifications are performed through resource instructions that allow the modification of the various internal parameters determining the behavior of BibTool; resource instructions can be grouped in resource files. The original BibTool distribution contains a sufficient set of resource file samples to perform basic, relevant manipulations.
BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX.
BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOS machines.
There are three methods to install bibtool
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 bibtool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bibtool
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bibtool
Install bibtool Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bibtool
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bibtool
Install bibtool 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 bibtool
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bibtool
How To Uninstall bibtool on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bibtool
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bibtool
Uninstall bibtool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bibtool
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bibtool
Remove bibtool Configurations and Data
To remove bibtool
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bibtool
Remove bibtool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bibtool
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bibtool
Dependencies
bibtool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bibtool
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.