How To Install note on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install note on Debian 9.

What is note

note is:

This is a small console program similar to knotes, which allows you to manage notes from commandline. Note can use different database-backends for notes-storage. It ships with a DBI-based mysql-module (which can also be used by others through a DBI-based supported DBMS) and another module, which uses a binary file for storage and a DBM module.

There are three methods to install note 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 note Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install note

Install note Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install note using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install note

Install note 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 note using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install note

How To Uninstall note on Debian 9

To uninstall only the note package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove note

Uninstall note And Its Dependencies

To uninstall note and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove note

Remove note Configurations and Data

To remove note configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge note

Remove note configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge note

Dependencies

note have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• note website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install note package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.