How To Install r-cran-gert on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gert
on Debian 12.
What is r-cran-gert
r-cran-gert is:
Simple git client for R based on ’libgit2’ with support for SSH and HTTPS remotes. All functions in ‘gert’ use basic R data types (such as vectors and data-frames) for their arguments and return values. User credentials are shared with command line ‘git’ through the git-credential store and ssh keys stored on disk or ssh-agent.
There are three methods to install r-cran-gert
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 r-cran-gert Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-gert
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-gert
Install r-cran-gert Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-gert
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-gert
Install r-cran-gert 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 r-cran-gert
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-gert
How To Uninstall r-cran-gert on Debian 12
To uninstall only the r-cran-gert
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-gert
Uninstall r-cran-gert And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-gert
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-gert
Remove r-cran-gert Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-gert
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-gert
Remove r-cran-gert configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-gert
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-gert
Dependencies
r-cran-gert have the following dependencies:
- r-base-core
- r-api-4.0
- r-cran-askpass
- r-cran-credentials
- r-cran-openssl
- r-cran-rstudioapi
- r-cran-sys
- r-cran-zip
- libc6
- libgit2-1.5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gert
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.