How To Install discount on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount
on Debian 9.
What is discount
discount is:
Discount is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown markup language. It implements all of the language described in the Markdown syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.
This package provides the discount executables.
There are three methods to install discount
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 discount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install discount
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install discount
Install discount Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install discount
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install discount
Install discount 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 discount
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install discount
How To Uninstall discount on Debian 9
To uninstall only the discount
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove discount
Uninstall discount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall discount
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove discount
Remove discount Configurations and Data
To remove discount
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge discount
Remove discount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove discount
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge discount
Dependencies
discount have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.