How To Install indent on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indent
on Debian 11.
What is indent
indent is:
The `indent’ program changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or deleting whitespace.
`indent’ also provides options for controlling the alignment of braces and declarations, program indenting, and other stylistic parameters, including formatting of both C and C++ comments.
There are three methods to install indent
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 indent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install indent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indent
Install indent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indent
Install indent 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 indent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indent
How To Uninstall indent on Debian 11
To uninstall only the indent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indent
Uninstall indent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indent
Remove indent Configurations and Data
To remove indent
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indent
Remove indent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indent
Dependencies
indent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indent
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.