How To Install miscfiles on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install miscfiles on Debian 9.
What is miscfiles
miscfiles is:
These files are not crucial to system administration or operation, but which have come to be common on various systems over the years. They originated from various sources and are freely redistributable (see the copyright file for more information).
These files include those of general interest (English `connectives’, Webster’s Second International English wordlist, traditional stone and flower for each month, Precedence table for operators in the C language, description of the ISO Latin-1 character set, two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639, International country telephone codes, geographic coordinates of many major cities, Some common abbreviations used in electronic communication, GNU mailing lists, country and currency abbreviations, rfc-index, etc.).
There also is information specific to the United States (List of three letter codes for some major airports, North American (+1) telephone area codes, postal codes for US states and Canadian provinces, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies).
There are three methods to install miscfiles 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 miscfiles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install miscfiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install miscfiles
Install miscfiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install miscfiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install miscfiles
Install miscfiles 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 miscfiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install miscfiles
How To Uninstall miscfiles on Debian 9
To uninstall only the miscfiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove miscfiles
Uninstall miscfiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall miscfiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove miscfiles
Remove miscfiles Configurations and Data
To remove miscfiles configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge miscfiles
Remove miscfiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove miscfiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge miscfiles
Dependencies
miscfiles have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install miscfiles package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.