How To Install foodcritic on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foodcritic on Debian 9.
What is foodcritic
foodcritic is:
Foodcritic has two goals:
To make it easier to flag problems in your Chef cookbooks that will cause Chef to blow up when you attempt to converge. This is about faster feedback. If you automate checks for common problems you can save a lot of time.
To encourage discussion within the Chef community on the more subjective stuff
- what does a good cookbook look like? Opscode have avoided being overly prescriptive. Having a set of rules to base discussion on helps drive out what the community think is good style.
There are three methods to install foodcritic 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 foodcritic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install foodcritic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install foodcritic
Install foodcritic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install foodcritic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install foodcritic
Install foodcritic 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 foodcritic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install foodcritic
How To Uninstall foodcritic on Debian 9
To uninstall only the foodcritic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove foodcritic
Uninstall foodcritic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall foodcritic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove foodcritic
Remove foodcritic Configurations and Data
To remove foodcritic configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge foodcritic
Remove foodcritic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove foodcritic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foodcritic
Dependencies
foodcritic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foodcritic package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.