How To Install libdata-printer-perl on Debian 12

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdata-printer-perl on Debian 12.

What is libdata-printer-perl

libdata-printer-perl is:

Data::Printer is a tool designed to display Perl variables and objects on screen, properly formatted for inspection by a human being.

Many people use Data::Dumper for this task, although it was designed primarily to stringify data structures such that they can be eval’ed back in. It thus lacks all the visual clues, extra information and filtering possibilities that Data::Printer has to offer:

• Sane defaults
• Highly customizable
• Colored output by default
• Human-friendly output, with array index and custom separators
• Full object dumps including methods, inheritance and internals
• Exposes extra information such as tainted data and weak references
• Ability to easily create filters for objects and regular structures
• Ability to load settings from a .dataprinter file

There are three methods to install libdata-printer-perl 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 libdata-printer-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdata-printer-perl

Install libdata-printer-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdata-printer-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdata-printer-perl

Install libdata-printer-perl 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 libdata-printer-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdata-printer-perl

How To Uninstall libdata-printer-perl on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libdata-printer-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdata-printer-perl

Uninstall libdata-printer-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdata-printer-perl

Remove libdata-printer-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libdata-printer-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdata-printer-perl

Remove libdata-printer-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdata-printer-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdata-printer-perl

Dependencies

libdata-printer-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libdata-printer-perl website
• libdata-printer-perl on packages.debian.org

Summary

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