How To Install linkchecker on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linkchecker on Debian 10.
What is linkchecker
linkchecker is:
Provides a command line program and web interface to check links of websites and HTML documents. Features: o recursive checking o multithreaded o output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats o HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support o restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs o proxy support o username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet o robots.txt exclusion protocol support o Cookie support o i18n support o HTML and CSS syntax check o Antivirus check
There are three methods to install linkchecker 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 linkchecker Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linkchecker using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linkchecker
Install linkchecker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linkchecker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linkchecker
Install linkchecker 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 linkchecker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linkchecker
How To Uninstall linkchecker on Debian 10
To uninstall only the linkchecker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linkchecker
Uninstall linkchecker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linkchecker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linkchecker
Remove linkchecker Configurations and Data
To remove linkchecker configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linkchecker
Remove linkchecker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linkchecker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linkchecker
Dependencies
linkchecker have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linkchecker package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.