How To Install lscolors on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lscolors on Debian 11.
What is lscolors
lscolors is:
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “lscolors”:
- lscolors
There are three methods to install lscolors on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lscolors Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lscolors using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lscolors
Install lscolors Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lscolors using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lscolors
Install lscolors 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 lscolors using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lscolors
How To Uninstall lscolors on Debian 11
To uninstall only the lscolors package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lscolors
Uninstall lscolors And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lscolors and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lscolors
Remove lscolors Configurations and Data
To remove lscolors configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lscolors
Remove lscolors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lscolors configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lscolors
Dependencies
lscolors have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lscolors package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.