How To Install since on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install since
on Debian 9.
What is since
since is:
since is a tail(1) work-alike that remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what’s new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files (it’ll only show what’s new in the file since the last time it was run).
There are three methods to install since
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install since Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install since
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install since
Install since Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install since
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install since
Install since 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 since
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install since
How To Uninstall since on Debian 9
To uninstall only the since
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove since
Uninstall since And Its Dependencies
To uninstall since
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove since
Remove since Configurations and Data
To remove since
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge since
Remove since configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove since
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge since
Dependencies
since have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install since
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.