How To Install cli-spinner on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cli-spinner on Debian 10.
What is cli-spinner
cli-spinner is:
Simple spinner for the commandline while your CLI application is working. The cli-spinner binary isn’t really functional, it’s a commandline example. If you to want use a spinner library in your software, please, install golang-github-odeke-em-cli-spinner-dev package.
This package contains a example binary with spinner slash.
There are three methods to install cli-spinner 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 cli-spinner Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cli-spinner using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cli-spinner
Install cli-spinner Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cli-spinner using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cli-spinner
Install cli-spinner 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 cli-spinner using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cli-spinner
How To Uninstall cli-spinner on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cli-spinner package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cli-spinner
Uninstall cli-spinner And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cli-spinner and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cli-spinner
Remove cli-spinner Configurations and Data
To remove cli-spinner configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cli-spinner
Remove cli-spinner configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cli-spinner configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cli-spinner
Dependencies
cli-spinner have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cli-spinner package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.