How To Install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl on Debian 10.
What is libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
libwww-mediawiki-client-perl is:
This package includes the MVS client and the WWW::Mediawiki::Client perl library implementing the functionality in MVS. WWW::Mediawiki::Client provides a very simple CVS-like interface for viewing, staying in sync with, and editing pages in websites that run Mediawiki software. In particular, the software is extremely useful for editing pages in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia websites.
MVS is a command line client whose purpose is to simplify offline editing of Wiki content. It allows you to get any number of pages from a given Mediawiki site, edit the pages with any editor, get and merge any concurrent updates of the pages, and then safely commit the users own changes back to the version of the page on the server.
There are three methods to install libwww-mediawiki-client-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 libwww-mediawiki-client-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 libwww-mediawiki-client-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Install libwww-mediawiki-client-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 libwww-mediawiki-client-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
How To Uninstall libwww-mediawiki-client-perl on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libwww-mediawiki-client-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Uninstall libwww-mediawiki-client-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwww-mediawiki-client-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Remove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Remove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwww-mediawiki-client-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Dependencies
libwww-mediawiki-client-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.