How To Install only on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install only on Debian 12.
What is only
only is:
The ‘only’ command-line tool lets you search based on word patterns or line patterns like never before! Not only can you search with ‘only -l patt’ but you can select the n-th match with ‘-l n/patt/’ and the next 3 lines with ‘-l /patt/0:3’.
There are three methods to install only 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 only Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install only using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install only
Install only Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install only using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install only
Install only 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 only using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install only
How To Uninstall only on Debian 12
To uninstall only the only package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove only
Uninstall only And Its Dependencies
To uninstall only and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove only
Remove only Configurations and Data
To remove only configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge only
Remove only configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove only configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge only
Dependencies
only have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install only package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.