How To Install remind-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remind-tools on Debian 12.
What is remind-tools
remind-tools is:
Remind allows you to remind yourself of upcoming events and appointments. Each reminder or alarm can consist of a message sent to standard output, or a program to be executed.
It also features: sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew calendar, alarms, PostScript output, tcl/tk front-end and proper handling of holidays.
Tools to convert the remind output to ps, pdf or html as well as example files.
There are three methods to install remind-tools 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 remind-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install remind-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install remind-tools
Install remind-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install remind-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install remind-tools
Install remind-tools 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 remind-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install remind-tools
How To Uninstall remind-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the remind-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove remind-tools
Uninstall remind-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall remind-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove remind-tools
Remove remind-tools Configurations and Data
To remove remind-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge remind-tools
Remove remind-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove remind-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remind-tools
Dependencies
remind-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remind-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
