How To Install neo-cli on Debian 12

Learn how to install neo-cli on Debian 12 with this tutorial. neo-cli is digital rain simulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neo-cli on Debian 12.

What is neo-cli

neo-cli is:

neo recreates the digital rain effect from “The Matrix”. Streams of random characters will endlessly scroll down your terminal screen. neo supports half-japananese characters/unicode, “appearing” text like in The Matrix and 32 bit colors.

There are three methods to install neo-cli 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 neo-cli Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install neo-cli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install neo-cli

Install neo-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install neo-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install neo-cli

Install neo-cli 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 neo-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neo-cli

How To Uninstall neo-cli on Debian 12

To uninstall only the neo-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neo-cli

Uninstall neo-cli And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neo-cli

Remove neo-cli Configurations and Data

To remove neo-cli configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neo-cli

Remove neo-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove neo-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neo-cli

Dependencies

neo-cli have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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