How To Install reuse on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reuse
on Debian 12.
What is reuse
reuse is:
Managing copyright and licensing is difficult, especially when reusing software from different projects that are released under various different licenses. REUSE was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to provide a set of recommendations to make licensing your Free Software projects easier. Not only do these recommendations make it easier for you to declare the licenses under which your works are released, but they also make it easier for a computer to understand how your project is licensed.
This package contains a tool for checking and helping with compliance with the REUSE recommendations.
There are three methods to install reuse
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 reuse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install reuse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reuse
Install reuse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reuse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reuse
Install reuse 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 reuse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reuse
How To Uninstall reuse on Debian 12
To uninstall only the reuse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reuse
Uninstall reuse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reuse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reuse
Remove reuse Configurations and Data
To remove reuse
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reuse
Remove reuse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reuse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reuse
Dependencies
reuse have the following dependencies:
- python3-binaryornot
- python3-boolean
- python3-debian
- python3-jinja2
- python3-license-expression
- python3-pkg-resources
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reuse
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.