How To Install pampi on Debian 12

Learn how to install pampi on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pampi is Presentations with Markdown, Pandoc, Impress.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pampi on Debian 12.

What is pampi

pampi is:

PAMPI is a free software to create presentations easily.

presentations are written in text files,

  • so they can be modified easily
  • the files syntax (Markdown) is easily learnt
  • many examples of usable Markdown are available at https://enacit1.epfl.ch/markdown-pandoc They are converted to web pages (HTML files)
  • one can view them with a browser
  • one can publish them online, grab them on a USB stick, etc. In PAMPI’s interface, the Markdown file is displaied in the left side and on can view the result in the right side.

Every step of a presentation can be located in any position in a 3D space

  • one provides its coordinates
  • one can specify its zoom factor
  • one can specify rotations Maths can be authored with KaTeX.

Here are many examples: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pampi

Install pampi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pampi

Install pampi 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 pampi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pampi

How To Uninstall pampi on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove pampi

Uninstall pampi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pampi

Remove pampi Configurations and Data

To remove pampi configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pampi

Remove pampi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pampi

Dependencies

pampi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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