How To Install lepton-eda on Debian 12

Learn how to install lepton-eda on Debian 12 with this tutorial. lepton-eda is Lepton Electronic Design Automation (metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lepton-eda on Debian 12.

What is lepton-eda

lepton-eda is:

The Lepton EDA suite provides schematic capture, netlisting, bill of materials generation, and many other features. It was forked from the gEDA/gaf suite in late 2016.

There are three methods to install lepton-eda 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 lepton-eda Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lepton-eda

Install lepton-eda Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lepton-eda

Install lepton-eda 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 lepton-eda using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lepton-eda

How To Uninstall lepton-eda on Debian 12

To uninstall only the lepton-eda package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lepton-eda

Uninstall lepton-eda And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lepton-eda and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lepton-eda

Remove lepton-eda Configurations and Data

To remove lepton-eda configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lepton-eda

Remove lepton-eda configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lepton-eda

Dependencies

lepton-eda have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lepton-eda package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.