How To Install cowsay-off on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay-off on Debian 11.
What is cowsay-off
cowsay-off is:
Cowsay (or cowthink) will turn text into happy ASCII cows, with speech (or thought) balloons. If you don’t like cows, ASCII art is available to replace it with some other creatures (Tux, the BSD daemon, dragons, and a plethora of animals, from a turkey to an elephant in a snake).
This package contains cows which some may consider to be offensive. Please do not install this package if you or your users are easily offended.
There are three methods to install cowsay-off on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cowsay-off Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cowsay-off using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cowsay-off
Install cowsay-off Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cowsay-off using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cowsay-off
Install cowsay-off 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 cowsay-off using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cowsay-off
How To Uninstall cowsay-off on Debian 11
To uninstall only the cowsay-off package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cowsay-off
Uninstall cowsay-off And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cowsay-off and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cowsay-off
Remove cowsay-off Configurations and Data
To remove cowsay-off configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cowsay-off
Remove cowsay-off configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cowsay-off configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cowsay-off
Dependencies
cowsay-off have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay-off package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.