How To Install bless on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bless
on Debian 9.
What is bless
bless is:
Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as a sequence of bytes written for the GNOME Desktop. Main features are:
- Efficient editing of large data files.
- Multilevel undo - redo operations.
- Customizable data views.
- Fast data rendering on screen.
- Multiple Tabs.
- Fast Find and Replace operations.
- Conversion Table.
- Advanced Copy/Paste capabilities.
- Multi-threaded search and save operations.
- Export to text and html (others with plugins).
- Extensibility with Plugins.
There are three methods to install bless
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 bless Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bless
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bless
Install bless Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bless
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bless
Install bless 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 bless
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bless
How To Uninstall bless on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bless
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bless
Uninstall bless And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bless
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bless
Remove bless Configurations and Data
To remove bless
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bless
Remove bless configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bless
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bless
Dependencies
bless have the following dependencies:
- mono-runtime
- libc6
- libglade2.0-cil
- libglib2.0-cil
- libgtk2.0-cil
- libmono-corlib4.5-cil
- libmono-posix4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
- libmono-system4.0-cil
- rarian-compat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bless
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.