How To Install duck on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install duck on Debian 9.
What is duck
duck is:
duck, the Debian Url ChecKer, processes several fields in the debian/control, debian/upstream, debian/copyright, debian/patches/* and systemd.unit files and checks if URLs, VCS links and email address domains found therein are valid.
There are three methods to install duck 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 duck Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install duck using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install duck
Install duck Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install duck using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install duck
Install duck 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 duck using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install duck
How To Uninstall duck on Debian 9
To uninstall only the duck package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove duck
Uninstall duck And Its Dependencies
To uninstall duck and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove duck
Remove duck Configurations and Data
To remove duck configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge duck
Remove duck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove duck configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duck
Dependencies
duck have the following dependencies:
- devscripts
- dpkg-dev
- perl
- libfile-which-perl
- libmailtools-perl
- libnet-dns-perl
- libparse-debcontrol-perl
- libpath-class-perl
- libregexp-common-email-address-perl
- libregexp-common-perl
- libstring-similarity-perl
- libwww-curl-perl
- libxml-xpath-perl
- libyaml-libyaml-perl
- libconfig-simple-perl
- libconfig-inifiles-perl
- lynx
- libparallel-forkmanager-perl
- libdomain-publicsuffix-perl
- publicsuffix
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install duck package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.