How To Install nedit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nedit
on Debian 9.
What is nedit
nedit is:
NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools, but at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text.
Because of its mature age, NEdit does not support UTF-8 text files, nor will that be implemented.
There are three methods to install nedit
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 nedit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nedit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nedit
Install nedit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nedit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nedit
Install nedit 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 nedit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nedit
How To Uninstall nedit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nedit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nedit
Uninstall nedit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nedit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nedit
Remove nedit Configurations and Data
To remove nedit
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nedit
Remove nedit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nedit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nedit
Dependencies
nedit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nedit
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.