How To Install cldump on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cldump on Debian 9.
What is cldump
cldump is:
The cldump utility allows you to extract the content of a Clarion database; Clarion is a Windows IDE similar to Delphi and others, and has its own (simple) database format.
cldump can export the content of the database to CSV or SQL, plus its own “format” which dumps all the meta data along with the data contained in the database. When using the SQL output, you’ll get a nearly ready-to-go dump of the database that will create the table and the indexes and insert the data into the table.
Note that cldump doesn’t support all the datatypes yet; patches welcome.
You may be interested in the dbview package too, which can dump dBase files.
There are three methods to install cldump 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 cldump Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cldump using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cldump
Install cldump Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cldump using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cldump
Install cldump 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 cldump using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cldump
How To Uninstall cldump on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cldump package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cldump
Uninstall cldump And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cldump and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cldump
Remove cldump Configurations and Data
To remove cldump configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cldump
Remove cldump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cldump configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cldump
Dependencies
cldump have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cldump package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.