How To Install exa on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exa on Debian 10.
What is exa
exa is:
exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it??s small, fast, and just one single binary.
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “exa”:
- exa
There are three methods to install exa on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install exa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install exa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install exa
Install exa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install exa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install exa
Install exa 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 exa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install exa
How To Uninstall exa on Debian 10
To uninstall only the exa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove exa
Uninstall exa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall exa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove exa
Remove exa Configurations and Data
To remove exa configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge exa
Remove exa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove exa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exa
Dependencies
exa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exa package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.