How To Install bumpversion on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bumpversion on Debian 9.
What is bumpversion
bumpversion is:
A small command line tool to simplify releasing software by updating all version strings in your source code by the correct increment.
Also creates commits and tags:
- version formats are highly configurable
- works without any VCS, but happily reads tag information from and writes commits and tags to Git and Mercurial if available
- just handles text files, so it’s not specific to any programming language
There are three methods to install bumpversion 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 bumpversion Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bumpversion using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bumpversion
Install bumpversion Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bumpversion using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bumpversion
Install bumpversion 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 bumpversion using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bumpversion
How To Uninstall bumpversion on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bumpversion package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bumpversion
Uninstall bumpversion And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bumpversion and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bumpversion
Remove bumpversion Configurations and Data
To remove bumpversion configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bumpversion
Remove bumpversion configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bumpversion configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bumpversion
Dependencies
bumpversion have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bumpversion package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.