How To Install shapetools on Debian 10

Learn how to install shapetools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. shapetools is Configuration and Release management using AtFS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install shapetools on Debian 10.

What is shapetools

shapetools is:

ShapeTools is a collection of programs to support software configuration management in an UNIX environment. It consists of a set of version and attribute control commands, and a configuration interpreter and build tool (“shape”). The toolkit is integrated on top of the Attributed File System (AtFS).

ShapeTools is designed to live meaningfully together with any other UNIX tool operating on regular files. This distribution also contains a prototype for a comprehensive change control and release management system designed to manage the evolution of system releases in multi programmer software development efforts.

There are three methods to install shapetools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install shapetools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shapetools

Install shapetools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shapetools

Install shapetools 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 shapetools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shapetools

How To Uninstall shapetools on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove shapetools

Uninstall shapetools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall shapetools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shapetools

Remove shapetools Configurations and Data

To remove shapetools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge shapetools

Remove shapetools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shapetools

Dependencies

shapetools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install shapetools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.