How To Install fortunes-de on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes-de
on Debian 9.
What is fortunes-de
fortunes-de is:
Collection of more than 17000 German cookies. This package can be a replacement for or an addition to the fortunes package to let fortune speak German.
There are three methods to install fortunes-de
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 fortunes-de Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes-de
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fortunes-de
Install fortunes-de Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes-de
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fortunes-de
Install fortunes-de 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 fortunes-de
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fortunes-de
How To Uninstall fortunes-de on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fortunes-de
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fortunes-de
Uninstall fortunes-de And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fortunes-de
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fortunes-de
Remove fortunes-de Configurations and Data
To remove fortunes-de
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fortunes-de
Remove fortunes-de configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fortunes-de
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fortunes-de
Dependencies
fortunes-de have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes-de
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.