How To Install poster on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poster
on Debian 10.
What is poster
poster is:
Poster takes a one-page PostScript file and scales it to a specified size. It can tile the resulting image into multiple smaller pages that can be pasted together to form the big poster. Poster prefers EPS as its input although freer forms of PostScript are also understood.
There are three methods to install poster
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install poster Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poster
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poster
Install poster Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poster
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poster
Install poster 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 poster
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poster
How To Uninstall poster on Debian 10
To uninstall only the poster
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poster
Uninstall poster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poster
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poster
Remove poster Configurations and Data
To remove poster
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poster
Remove poster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poster
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poster
Dependencies
poster have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poster
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.