How To Install brandy on Debian 12

Learn how to install brandy on Debian 12 with this tutorial. brandy is BBC BASIC VI interpreter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brandy on Debian 12.

What is brandy

brandy is:

Matrix Brandy is an interpreter for BBC BASIC. It is source code compatible with the BASIC VI interpreter in RISC OS.

BBC BASIC VI is the 64-bit floating-point version of BASIC that came with the Acorn RISC OS machines, itself a development of the version of BASIC on the BBC Micro. Matrix Brandy aims to be source code compatible with this, including some extensions found in the RISC PC versions and the later RISC OS 5 as made available for several systems including the Raspberry Pi.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install brandy

Install brandy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install brandy

Install brandy 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 brandy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install brandy

How To Uninstall brandy on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove brandy

Uninstall brandy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall brandy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove brandy

Remove brandy Configurations and Data

To remove brandy configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge brandy

Remove brandy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brandy

Dependencies

brandy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install brandy package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.