How To Install debtags on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install debtags on Debian 11.

What is debtags

debtags is:

debtags extracts tag information from the apt database and makes it available to the system, either in /var/lib/debtags/debtags or via apt-xapian-index.

Package tags are categories for Debian packages.

debtags also provides some handy command to query tag information.

There are three methods to install debtags 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 debtags Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install debtags using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install debtags

Install debtags Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install debtags using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install debtags

Install debtags 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 debtags using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install debtags

How To Uninstall debtags on Debian 11

To uninstall only the debtags package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove debtags

Uninstall debtags And Its Dependencies

To uninstall debtags and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove debtags

Remove debtags Configurations and Data

To remove debtags configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge debtags

Remove debtags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove debtags configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debtags

Dependencies

debtags have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• debtags website
• debtags on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install debtags package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.