How To Install tcvt on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcvt on Debian 12.
What is tcvt
tcvt is:
Your screen is getting wider. Keeping track of long lines gets harder. Space on the right hand side of the screen is completely blank due to short lines. Are you struggling with these? Then tcvt is for you.
The two column virtual terminal, short tcvt, can be used to vertically split a single terminal in two (or more) columns. This is similar to a two column layout in printing, just for regular terminals.
Note that this is not about placing two terminals next to each other. This task is already solved by tiling window managers, screen, tmux and splitvt. What tcvt does is create a single very tall terminal with two columns.
Please note that the current version does not support UTF-8 yet. Experimental patches are available in the utf8 branch of the upstream repository.
There are three methods to install tcvt 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 tcvt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tcvt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcvt
Install tcvt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tcvt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcvt
Install tcvt 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 tcvt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcvt
How To Uninstall tcvt on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tcvt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcvt
Uninstall tcvt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcvt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcvt
Remove tcvt Configurations and Data
To remove tcvt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcvt
Remove tcvt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcvt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcvt
Dependencies
tcvt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcvt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
