How To Install kitty-terminfo on Debian 10

Learn how to install kitty-terminfo on Debian 10 with this tutorial. kitty-terminfo is fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator (terminfo file)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kitty-terminfo on Debian 10.

What is kitty-terminfo

kitty-terminfo is:

This package provides the xterm-kitty terminfo definition for the kitty terminal emulator so that it can easily be installed on remote systems.

There are three methods to install kitty-terminfo 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 kitty-terminfo Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kitty-terminfo

Install kitty-terminfo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kitty-terminfo

Install kitty-terminfo 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 kitty-terminfo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kitty-terminfo

How To Uninstall kitty-terminfo on Debian 10

To uninstall only the kitty-terminfo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kitty-terminfo

Uninstall kitty-terminfo And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kitty-terminfo

Remove kitty-terminfo Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kitty-terminfo

Remove kitty-terminfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kitty-terminfo

Dependencies

kitty-terminfo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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