How To Install info2www on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install info2www on Debian 9. info2www is Read info files with a WWW browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install info2www on Debian 9.

What is info2www

info2www is:

info2www lets you read info files with a WWW browser. It requires an HTTP server with CGI support.

There are three methods to install info2www on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install info2www Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install info2www using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install info2www

Install info2www Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install info2www using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install info2www

Install info2www 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 info2www using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install info2www

How To Uninstall info2www on Debian 9

To uninstall only the info2www package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove info2www

Uninstall info2www And Its Dependencies

To uninstall info2www and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove info2www

Remove info2www Configurations and Data

To remove info2www configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge info2www

Remove info2www configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove info2www configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge info2www

Dependencies

info2www have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install info2www package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.