How To Install msc-generator-nox on Debian 12

Learn how to install msc-generator-nox on Debian 12 with this tutorial. msc-generator-nox is Draws signalling charts from textual description (no-X version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install msc-generator-nox on Debian 12.

What is msc-generator-nox

msc-generator-nox is:

Msc-generator is a program that parses textual Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces graphical output in a variety of file formats.

Msc-generator heavily borrows in concept from the 0.08 version of Michael C McTernan’s mscgen. However, it has been completely rewritten from scratch and has a much more extensive (and only partially backwards compatible) language. The command-line interface is fully backwards compatible with mscgen, which enables using Msc-generator’s commandline tool everywhere where you can use mscgen, but with the richer syntax. This includes the many tools integrated with mscgen, such as Doxygen, Sphinx and Msctexen.

This package is for working without an X server.

There are three methods to install msc-generator-nox 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 msc-generator-nox Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install msc-generator-nox using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install msc-generator-nox

Install msc-generator-nox Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install msc-generator-nox using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install msc-generator-nox

Install msc-generator-nox 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 msc-generator-nox using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install msc-generator-nox

How To Uninstall msc-generator-nox on Debian 12

To uninstall only the msc-generator-nox package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove msc-generator-nox

Uninstall msc-generator-nox And Its Dependencies

To uninstall msc-generator-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove msc-generator-nox

Remove msc-generator-nox Configurations and Data

To remove msc-generator-nox configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge msc-generator-nox

Remove msc-generator-nox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove msc-generator-nox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge msc-generator-nox

Dependencies

msc-generator-nox have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install msc-generator-nox package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.