How To Install boxes on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes on Debian 10.
What is boxes
boxes is:
Boxes is extremely configurable filter for adding and removing ASCII art (comments, for example) around chunks of text. Most modern text editors support filtering text through external filters. Boxes is such a filter.
There are three methods to install boxes 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 boxes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install boxes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boxes
Install boxes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install boxes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boxes
Install boxes 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 boxes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boxes
How To Uninstall boxes on Debian 10
To uninstall only the boxes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boxes
Uninstall boxes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boxes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boxes
Remove boxes Configurations and Data
To remove boxes configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boxes
Remove boxes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boxes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boxes
Dependencies
boxes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.