How To Install spectral on Debian 12

Learn how to install spectral on Debian 12 with this tutorial. spectral is Transitional dummy package

Introduction

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

What is spectral

spectral is:

This is a transitional dummy package, it can be safely removed. Spectral is no longer developed, and Neochat replaces it.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spectral

Install spectral Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spectral

Install spectral 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 spectral using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spectral

How To Uninstall spectral on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove spectral

Uninstall spectral And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectral

Remove spectral Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge spectral

Remove spectral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectral

Dependencies

spectral have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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