How To Install stardict-plugin-info on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-info on Debian 12.
What is stardict-plugin-info
stardict-plugin-info 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 info plugin for StarDict which can read Linux Info documents.
To use this info plugin, please input “info” prefix before string. For example: “info printf”.
There are three methods to install stardict-plugin-info 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-info 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-info using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-plugin-info
Install stardict-plugin-info Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-info using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict-plugin-info
Install stardict-plugin-info 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-info using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict-plugin-info
How To Uninstall stardict-plugin-info on Debian 12
To uninstall only the stardict-plugin-info package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict-plugin-info
Uninstall stardict-plugin-info And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict-plugin-info and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-plugin-info
Remove stardict-plugin-info Configurations and Data
To remove stardict-plugin-info configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-plugin-info
Remove stardict-plugin-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict-plugin-info configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-plugin-info
Dependencies
stardict-plugin-info have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-info package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
