How To Install groff-base on Debian 10

Learn how to install groff-base on Debian 10 with this tutorial. groff-base is GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install groff-base on Debian 10.

What is groff-base

groff-base is:

This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the man-db package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages.

groff-base is a stripped-down package containing the necessary components to read manual pages in ASCII, Latin-1, and UTF-8, plus the PostScript device (groff’s default). Users who want a full groff installation, with the standard set of devices, fonts, macros, and documentation, should install the groff package.

There are three methods to install groff-base 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 groff-base Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install groff-base using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install groff-base

Install groff-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install groff-base using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install groff-base

Install groff-base 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 groff-base using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install groff-base

How To Uninstall groff-base on Debian 10

To uninstall only the groff-base package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove groff-base

Uninstall groff-base And Its Dependencies

To uninstall groff-base and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove groff-base

Remove groff-base Configurations and Data

To remove groff-base configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge groff-base

Remove groff-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove groff-base configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge groff-base

Dependencies

groff-base have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install groff-base package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.