How To Install delta on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install delta on Debian 9.
What is delta
delta is:
Delta assists you in minimizing “interesting” files subject to a test of their “interestingness”. A common such situation is when attempting to isolate a small failure-inducing substring of a large input that causes your program to exhibit a bug.
There are three methods to install delta 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 delta Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install delta using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install delta
Install delta Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install delta using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install delta
Install delta 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 delta using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install delta
How To Uninstall delta on Debian 9
To uninstall only the delta package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove delta
Uninstall delta And Its Dependencies
To uninstall delta and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove delta
Remove delta Configurations and Data
To remove delta configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge delta
Remove delta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove delta configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge delta
Dependencies
delta have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install delta package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.