How To Install glogg on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glogg on Debian 10.
What is glogg
glogg is:
glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind and can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
Main features include:
- Accept egrep regular expression to search or filter the log.
- Interactively display results of the search in a second, filtered window.
- Colorize the log and the search results.
- Read the file directly from disk, without loading it into memory.
- Happily handle big (>4 GiB) files.
- Read UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encoded files.
- Follow a log in real-time as it is written to disk.
- Allow one to insert marks in the logs to interesting lines.
- Support less/vim like keyboard commands to move around the file.
There are three methods to install glogg 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 glogg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glogg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glogg
Install glogg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glogg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glogg
Install glogg 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 glogg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glogg
How To Uninstall glogg on Debian 10
To uninstall only the glogg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glogg
Uninstall glogg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glogg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glogg
Remove glogg Configurations and Data
To remove glogg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glogg
Remove glogg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glogg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glogg
Dependencies
glogg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glogg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.