How To Install goby on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goby
on Debian 10.
What is goby
goby is:
Goby is an Emacs Lisp package to display large fonts and images, which can be used as a WYSIWYG presentation tool on GNU Emacs.
There are two modes, Edit and View, for Goby. Edit mode is implemented as a minor mode while View mode as a major mode. The created file (*.gby) is just a text, so you can easily handle it.
To display large fonts, install TrueType font packages. To use images, install the netpbm package. To make screen dumps, install the imagemagick package.
There are three methods to install goby
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 goby Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install goby
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install goby
Install goby Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install goby
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install goby
Install goby 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 goby
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install goby
How To Uninstall goby on Debian 10
To uninstall only the goby
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove goby
Uninstall goby And Its Dependencies
To uninstall goby
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove goby
Remove goby Configurations and Data
To remove goby
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge goby
Remove goby configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove goby
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goby
Dependencies
goby have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goby
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.