How To Install explain on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install explain
on Debian 9.
What is explain
explain is:
This package provides an explain(1) command to explain Unix and Linux system call errors, after the fact.
There are three methods to install explain
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 explain Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install explain
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install explain
Install explain Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install explain
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install explain
Install explain 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 explain
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install explain
How To Uninstall explain on Debian 9
To uninstall only the explain
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove explain
Uninstall explain And Its Dependencies
To uninstall explain
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove explain
Remove explain Configurations and Data
To remove explain
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge explain
Remove explain configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove explain
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge explain
Dependencies
explain have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install explain
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.