How To Install dte on Debian 12

Learn how to install dte on Debian 12 with this tutorial. dte is small and easy to use console text editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dte on Debian 12.

What is dte

dte is:

A very small console text editor that supports Unicode, multiple tabs and buffers, syntax highlighting, regex search and replace, encodings, ctags and various other features.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dte

Install dte Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dte

Install dte 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 dte using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dte

How To Uninstall dte on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove dte

Uninstall dte And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dte and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dte

Remove dte Configurations and Data

To remove dte configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dte

Remove dte configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dte

Dependencies

dte have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dte package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.