How To Install progress on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install progress on Debian 9.
What is progress
progress is:
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-and-OSX-Only C command that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provide a “top-like” mode (monitoring).
It simply scans /proc for interesting commands, and then looks at
directories fd and fdinfo to find opened files and seek positions,
and reports status for the largest file.
It’s very light, and compatible with virtually any command. This program was formerly known as ‘cv’ on github.
There are three methods to install progress 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 progress Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install progress using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install progress
Install progress Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install progress using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install progress
Install progress 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 progress using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install progress
How To Uninstall progress on Debian 9
To uninstall only the progress package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove progress
Uninstall progress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall progress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove progress
Remove progress Configurations and Data
To remove progress configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge progress
Remove progress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove progress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge progress
Dependencies
progress have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install progress package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.