How To Install detox on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install detox
on Debian 9.
What is detox
detox is:
detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.
Features:
- Removal or replacement of upper ASCII Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) characters;
- Removal or replacement of UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters;
- Removal or replacement of spaces and other potentially tricky characters;
- Trimming of excessive “_” and “-“s;
- Directory recursion, dry runs, verbose listings.
It is designed with safety in mind. It won’t overwrite a file that already exists, and it doesn’t touch special files if not requested.
detox is useful to mass rename files automatically. As just one example, you can use detox to easily standardize lots of files, as MP3 or movies, downloaded or stored inside a directory.
This package provides detox and inline-detox commands. The inline-detox is used to remove spaces and other such annoyances from streams. Basically it is detox, but does not operate on files.
There are three methods to install detox
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 detox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install detox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install detox
Install detox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install detox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install detox
Install detox 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 detox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install detox
How To Uninstall detox on Debian 9
To uninstall only the detox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove detox
Uninstall detox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall detox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove detox
Remove detox Configurations and Data
To remove detox
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge detox
Remove detox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove detox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge detox
Dependencies
detox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install detox
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.