How To Install prolix on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prolix on Debian 9.
What is prolix
prolix is:
prolix launches a command and captures its standard output and error, suppressing uninteresting lines according to a pattern. Yet unlike grep -v, prolix is an interactive program: When you find that the output you’re being shown is still too verbose, simply hit enter and add additional suppression patterns. Suppression patterns can be full or substring line matches as well as regular expressions. You can also apply substitutions to lines, for example shorten overly chatty fields.
There are three methods to install prolix 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 prolix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prolix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prolix
Install prolix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prolix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prolix
Install prolix 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 prolix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prolix
How To Uninstall prolix on Debian 9
To uninstall only the prolix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prolix
Uninstall prolix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prolix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prolix
Remove prolix Configurations and Data
To remove prolix configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prolix
Remove prolix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prolix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prolix
Dependencies
prolix have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libdata-munge-perl
- libipc-run-perl
- libjson-perl
- libmoose-perl
- libmoosex-configfromfile-perl
- libmoosex-getopt-perl
- libstring-shellquote-perl
- libterm-readkey-perl
- libtry-tiny-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prolix package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.