How To Install electric on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric on Debian 9.
What is electric
electric is:
Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including custom IC layout (ASICs), schematic drawing, hardware description language specifications, and electro-mechanical hybrid layout.
There are three methods to install electric 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 electric Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install electric using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install electric
Install electric Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install electric using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install electric
Install electric 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 electric using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install electric
How To Uninstall electric on Debian 9
To uninstall only the electric package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove electric
Uninstall electric And Its Dependencies
To uninstall electric and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove electric
Remove electric Configurations and Data
To remove electric configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge electric
Remove electric configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove electric configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge electric
Dependencies
electric have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.