How To Install drawterm-9front on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drawterm-9front on Debian 12.
What is drawterm-9front
drawterm-9front is:
Drawterm is a X11 application that allows one to connect to a remote Plan 9 server, usually a CPU server, but a terminal can also be tweaked to receive drawterm clients.
This is a fork of Russ Cox??s drawterm to incorporate features from Plan9front, most importantly DP9IK authentication support and the TLS based rcpu protocol.
There are three methods to install drawterm-9front on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install drawterm-9front Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install drawterm-9front using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install drawterm-9front
Install drawterm-9front Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install drawterm-9front using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install drawterm-9front
Install drawterm-9front 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 drawterm-9front using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install drawterm-9front
How To Uninstall drawterm-9front on Debian 12
To uninstall only the drawterm-9front package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove drawterm-9front
Uninstall drawterm-9front And Its Dependencies
To uninstall drawterm-9front and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove drawterm-9front
Remove drawterm-9front Configurations and Data
To remove drawterm-9front configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge drawterm-9front
Remove drawterm-9front configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove drawterm-9front configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drawterm-9front
Dependencies
drawterm-9front have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install drawterm-9front package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
