How To Install tcm on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcm on Debian 12.
What is tcm
tcm is:
The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling is a collection of software tools to present conceptual models of software systems in the form of diagrams, tables, trees, and the like. A conceptual model of a system is a structure used to represent the requirements or architecture of the system. TCM is meant to be used for specifying and maintaining requirements for desired systems, in which a number of techniques and heuristics for problem analysis, function refinement, behavior specification, and architecture specification are used. TCM takes the form of a suite of graphical editors that can be used in these design tasks. These editors can be categorized into:
- Generic editors for generic diagrams, generic tables and generic trees.
- Structured Analysis (SA) editors for entity-relationship diagrams, data and event flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, function refinement trees, transaction-use tables and function-entity type tables.
- Unified Modeling Language (UML) editors for static structure diagrams, use-case diagrams, activity diagrams, state charts, message sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, component diagrams and deployment diagrams (only the first three UML and last two editors are functional at this moment).
- Miscellaneous editors such as for JSD (process structure and network diagrams), recursive process graphs and transaction decomposition tables.
TCM supports constraint checking for single documents (e.g. name duplication and cycles in is-a relationships). TCM distinguishes built-in constraints (of which a violation cannot even be attempted) from immediate constraints (of which an attempted violation is immediately prevented) and soft constraints (against which the editor provides a warning when it checks the drawing). TCM is planned to support hierarchic graphs, so that it can handle for example hierarchic statecharts. Features to be added later include constraint checking across documents and executable models.
There are three methods to install tcm 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 tcm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tcm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcm
Install tcm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tcm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcm
Install tcm 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 tcm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcm
How To Uninstall tcm on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tcm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcm
Uninstall tcm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcm
Remove tcm Configurations and Data
To remove tcm configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcm
Remove tcm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcm
Dependencies
tcm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcm package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
