How To Install debdry on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debdry
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is debdry
debdry is:
debdry is for debian/ directories what debhelper7 is for debian/rules.
It applies the Don’t Repeat Yourself idea to packaging, attempting to reuse as much as possible of upstream’s metadata and standard packaging practices.
debdry runs an appropriate auto-debianisation tool for a given source directory, then applies manual overrides from a debian.in directory.
debdry supports the following types of packages (in brackets you will find extra packages that need to be installed for each type of package):
- Perl [dh-make-perl]
- Python [python-stdeb, python3-stdeb]
- Ruby [gem2deb]
- Haskell [cabal-debian]
There are three methods to install debdry
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install debdry Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debdry
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debdry
Install debdry Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debdry
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debdry
Install debdry 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install debdry
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debdry
How To Uninstall debdry on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the debdry
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debdry
Uninstall debdry And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debdry
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debdry
Remove debdry Configurations and Data
To remove debdry
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debdry
Remove debdry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debdry
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debdry
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debdry
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.