How To Install pike8.0 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pike8.0 on Debian 9.
What is pike8.0
pike8.0 is:
This is a metapackage which depends upon several other Pike packages that together make up the recommended Pike installation. If you want to install every packaged component of the Pike distribution, please install the pike8.0-full package.
If you want to remove several components this package depends upon, you can purge this package without worrying about the functionality loss in Pike and then remove the packages you don’t need on your system.
Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information see the description of the pike8.0-core package.
There are three methods to install pike8.0 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 pike8.0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pike8.0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pike8.0
Install pike8.0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pike8.0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pike8.0
Install pike8.0 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 pike8.0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pike8.0
How To Uninstall pike8.0 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pike8.0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pike8.0
Uninstall pike8.0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pike8.0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pike8.0
Remove pike8.0 Configurations and Data
To remove pike8.0 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pike8.0
Remove pike8.0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pike8.0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pike8.0
Dependencies
pike8.0 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pike8.0 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.