How To Install stardict-plugin-fortune on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-fortune
on Debian 12.
What is stardict-plugin-fortune
stardict-plugin-fortune is:
StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.
Main features:
- Glob-style pattern matching search
- Fuzzy search
- Working from system tray
- Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
- Pronouncing of the translated words
- Plugins support
- ..and more
This package contains fortune plugin for StarDict which can display fortune cookies.
There are three methods to install stardict-plugin-fortune
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 stardict-plugin-fortune Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-fortune
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-plugin-fortune
Install stardict-plugin-fortune Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-fortune
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict-plugin-fortune
Install stardict-plugin-fortune 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 stardict-plugin-fortune
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict-plugin-fortune
How To Uninstall stardict-plugin-fortune on Debian 12
To uninstall only the stardict-plugin-fortune
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict-plugin-fortune
Uninstall stardict-plugin-fortune And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict-plugin-fortune
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-plugin-fortune
Remove stardict-plugin-fortune Configurations and Data
To remove stardict-plugin-fortune
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-plugin-fortune
Remove stardict-plugin-fortune configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict-plugin-fortune
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-plugin-fortune
Dependencies
stardict-plugin-fortune have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-fortune
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.