How To Install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl on Debian 12

Learn how to install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl is Perl module to access information from Excel Spreadsheets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl on Debian 12.

What is libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl is:

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is a Perl module allows one to extract information from Excel spreadsheets. It can be used to read information from an Excel 95-2003 file. It cannot read information in the new XML-based XLSX format, for that, see Spreadsheet::XLSX (libspreadsheet-xlsx-perl) instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-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 libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

How To Uninstall libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Uninstall libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Remove libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Remove libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Dependencies

libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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