How To Install sloccount on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sloccount on Debian 9.
What is sloccount
sloccount is:
SLOCCount (pronounced “sloc-count”) is a suite of programs for counting physical source lines of code (SLOC) in potentially large software systems (thus, SLOCCount is a “software metrics tool” or “software measurement tool”). SLOCCount can count physical SLOC for a wide number of languages; listed alphabetically, they are: Ada, Assembly, awk, Bourne shell, C, C++, C shell, COBOL, C#, Erlang, Expect, Fortran, Java, lex/flex, LISP (including Scheme), Makefile, Modula3, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, sed, SQL, Tcl, VHDL, XML, Yacc/Bison.
SLOCCount can automatically determine if a file is a source code file or not, and if so, which language it’s written in. As a result, you can analyze large systems completely automatically. SLOCCount also includes some report-generating tools to collect the data generated and present it in several different formats.
There are three methods to install sloccount 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 sloccount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sloccount using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sloccount
Install sloccount Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sloccount using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sloccount
Install sloccount 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 sloccount using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sloccount
How To Uninstall sloccount on Debian 9
To uninstall only the sloccount package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sloccount
Uninstall sloccount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sloccount and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sloccount
Remove sloccount Configurations and Data
To remove sloccount configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sloccount
Remove sloccount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sloccount configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sloccount
Dependencies
sloccount have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sloccount package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.