How To Install luit on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luit on Debian 12.
What is luit
luit is:
Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale’s encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale’s encoding.
This is version 2.0 of luit, which can use encoding information from either the font-encoding data-files in the “xfonts-encodings” package, or the standard locale support in the C runtime library.
There are three methods to install luit 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 luit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install luit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install luit
Install luit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install luit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install luit
Install luit 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 luit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install luit
How To Uninstall luit on Debian 12
To uninstall only the luit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove luit
Uninstall luit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall luit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove luit
Remove luit Configurations and Data
To remove luit configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge luit
Remove luit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove luit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luit
Dependencies
luit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luit package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
