How To Install olive on Debian 9

Introduction

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

What is olive

olive is:

Olive is a console mode RSS newsreader. It provides a chronological rather than site-oriented view of news stories and tries to stay out of your way as much as possible.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install olive

Install olive Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install olive

Install olive 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 olive using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install olive

How To Uninstall olive on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove olive

Uninstall olive And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove olive

Remove olive Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge olive

Remove olive configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge olive

Dependencies

olive have the following dependencies:

• doc-base
• libclass-dbi-sqlite-perl
• libconfig-yaml-perl
• libcurses-ui-perl
• libdate-calc-perl
• libdbi-perl
• liblog-dispatch-perl
• libwww-perl
• libxml-parser-perl
• libxml-simple-perl
• perl

References

• olive website

Summary

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