How To Install gnu-standards on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-standards on Debian 11.
What is gnu-standards
gnu-standards is:
This package contains two pieces of documentation from the GNU project: ‘GNU Coding Standards’, and ‘Information for Maintainers of GNU Software’.
These are useful to refer to if you are writing or maintaining software for GNU, but could also be helpful as guidelines for other projects.
There are three methods to install gnu-standards on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnu-standards Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnu-standards using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnu-standards
Install gnu-standards Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnu-standards using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnu-standards
Install gnu-standards 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 gnu-standards using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnu-standards
How To Uninstall gnu-standards on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gnu-standards package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnu-standards
Uninstall gnu-standards And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnu-standards and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnu-standards
Remove gnu-standards Configurations and Data
To remove gnu-standards configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnu-standards
Remove gnu-standards configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnu-standards configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnu-standards
Dependencies
gnu-standards have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-standards package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.