How To Install logapp on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logapp on Debian 9.
What is logapp
logapp is:
Logapp is a wrapper utility that helps supervise the execution of applications that produce heavy console output (e.g. make, CVS and Subversion). It does this by logging, trimming, and coloring each line of the output before displaying it. It can be called instead of the executable that should be monitored; it then starts the application and logs all of its console output to a file. The output shown in the terminal is preprocessed, e.g. to limit the length of printed lines and to show the stderr output in a different color. It is also possible to automatically highlight lines that match a certain regular expression. The output is therefore reduced to the necessary amount, and all important lines are easy to identify.
There are three methods to install logapp on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install logapp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install logapp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install logapp
Install logapp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install logapp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install logapp
Install logapp 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 logapp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install logapp
How To Uninstall logapp on Debian 9
To uninstall only the logapp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove logapp
Uninstall logapp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall logapp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove logapp
Remove logapp Configurations and Data
To remove logapp configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge logapp
Remove logapp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove logapp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logapp
Dependencies
logapp have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logapp package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.