How To Install interception-tools-compat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install interception-tools-compat on Debian 12.
What is interception-tools-compat
interception-tools-compat is:
The Interception Tools is a small set of utilities for operating on input events of evdev devices.
- intercept - redirect device input events to stdout
This compatibility package to offer the upstream command name ‘intercept’ as the alias of the ‘interception’ command.
There are three methods to install interception-tools-compat on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install interception-tools-compat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install interception-tools-compat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install interception-tools-compat
Install interception-tools-compat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install interception-tools-compat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install interception-tools-compat
Install interception-tools-compat 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 interception-tools-compat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install interception-tools-compat
How To Uninstall interception-tools-compat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the interception-tools-compat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove interception-tools-compat
Uninstall interception-tools-compat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall interception-tools-compat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove interception-tools-compat
Remove interception-tools-compat Configurations and Data
To remove interception-tools-compat configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge interception-tools-compat
Remove interception-tools-compat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove interception-tools-compat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge interception-tools-compat
Dependencies
interception-tools-compat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install interception-tools-compat package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.