How To Install maint-guide on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maint-guide on Debian 9.
What is maint-guide
maint-guide is:
This package contains the Debian New Maintainers’ Guide.
This document tries to describe the building of a Debian package to ordinary Debian users and prospective developers. It uses fairly non-technical language, and it’s well covered with working examples.
The document contains these chapters: * 1 Getting started The Right Way * 2 First steps * 3 Modifying the source * 4 Required files under debian directory * 5 Other files under debian directory * 6 Building the package * 7 Checking the package for errors * 8 Uploading the package * 9 Updating the package
There are three methods to install maint-guide 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 maint-guide Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install maint-guide using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maint-guide
Install maint-guide Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maint-guide using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maint-guide
Install maint-guide 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 maint-guide using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maint-guide
How To Uninstall maint-guide on Debian 9
To uninstall only the maint-guide package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maint-guide
Uninstall maint-guide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maint-guide and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maint-guide
Remove maint-guide Configurations and Data
To remove maint-guide configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maint-guide
Remove maint-guide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maint-guide configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maint-guide
Dependencies
maint-guide have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maint-guide package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.