How To Install libedit2 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit2
on Debian 11.
What is libedit2
libedit2 is:
Command line editor library provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions.
It slightly resembles GNU readline.
There are three methods to install libedit2
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libedit2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libedit2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libedit2
Install libedit2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libedit2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libedit2
Install libedit2 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 libedit2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libedit2
How To Uninstall libedit2 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libedit2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libedit2
Uninstall libedit2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libedit2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libedit2
Remove libedit2 Configurations and Data
To remove libedit2
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libedit2
Remove libedit2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libedit2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libedit2
Dependencies
libedit2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit2
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.