How To Install eta on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eta on Debian 12.
What is eta
eta is:
ETA is a shell utility to monitor the progress of arbitrary processes. Given a target value and a command to run that generates the current value, ETA will print a progress bar and an up-to-date estimated time for the process to complete. This is useful to monitor a variety of other tools which do not output their progress or their time until completion.
There are three methods to install eta 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 eta Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eta using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eta
Install eta Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eta using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eta
Install eta 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 eta using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eta
How To Uninstall eta on Debian 12
To uninstall only the eta package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eta
Uninstall eta And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eta and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eta
Remove eta Configurations and Data
To remove eta configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eta
Remove eta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eta configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eta
Dependencies
eta have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eta package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
