How To Install rsass on Debian 12

Learn how to install rsass on Debian 12 with this tutorial. rsass is sass implementation in pure rust - CLI tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsass on Debian 12.

What is rsass

rsass is:

rsass is sass reimplemented in rust with nom.

Sass is a pre-processing language for CSS. It allows you to write cleaner stylesheets and makes collaboration on your CSS a breeze.

NB! Not all of the official Sass specification is implemented yet. See upstream README below /usr/share/doc/rsass/ for more details.

This package provides the command-line tool rsass.

There are three methods to install rsass 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 rsass Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rsass using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rsass

Install rsass Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rsass using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rsass

Install rsass 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 rsass using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rsass

How To Uninstall rsass on Debian 12

To uninstall only the rsass package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rsass

Uninstall rsass And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rsass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rsass

Remove rsass Configurations and Data

To remove rsass configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rsass

Remove rsass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove rsass configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rsass

Dependencies

rsass have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsass package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.