How To Install otcl-shells on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install otcl-shells on Debian 12.
What is otcl-shells
otcl-shells is:
OTcl, short for MIT Object Tcl, is an extension to Tcl/Tk for object-oriented programming. It shouldn’t be confused with the IXI Object Tcl extension by Dean Sheenan. (Sorry, but both of them like the name and have been using it for a while.)
Some of OTcl’s features as compared to alternatives are: designed to be dynamically extensible, like Tcl, from the ground up builds on Tcl syntax and concepts rather than importing another language compact yet powerful object programming system fairly portable implementation (2000 lines of C, without core hacks)
OTcl was created by David Wetherall as part of the VUsystem project at MIT. Since 1997, OTcl has been maintained as part of the Mash and VINT/ns efforts (with David’s blessing).
This package contains two bin files.
There are three methods to install otcl-shells 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 otcl-shells Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install otcl-shells using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install otcl-shells
Install otcl-shells Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install otcl-shells using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install otcl-shells
Install otcl-shells 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 otcl-shells using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install otcl-shells
How To Uninstall otcl-shells on Debian 12
To uninstall only the otcl-shells package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove otcl-shells
Uninstall otcl-shells And Its Dependencies
To uninstall otcl-shells and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove otcl-shells
Remove otcl-shells Configurations and Data
To remove otcl-shells configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge otcl-shells
Remove otcl-shells configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove otcl-shells configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge otcl-shells
Dependencies
otcl-shells have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install otcl-shells package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
