How To Install libfailures-perl on Debian 10

Learn how to install libfailures-perl on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libfailures-perl is minimalist exception hierarchy generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfailures-perl on Debian 10.

What is libfailures-perl

libfailures-perl is:

The failures module lets you define an exception hierarchy quickly and simply.

The design goals were:

?? minimalist interface ?? 80% of features in 20% of lines of code ?? depend only on core modules (nearly achieved) ?? support hierarchical error types ?? identify errors types by name (class) not by parsing strings ?? leave (possibly expensive) trace decisions to the thrower

There are three methods to install libfailures-perl 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 libfailures-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 libfailures-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfailures-perl

Install libfailures-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfailures-perl

Install libfailures-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 libfailures-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfailures-perl

How To Uninstall libfailures-perl on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libfailures-perl

Uninstall libfailures-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfailures-perl

Remove libfailures-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libfailures-perl

Remove libfailures-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfailures-perl

Dependencies

libfailures-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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