How To Install tealdeer on Debian 12

Learn how to install tealdeer on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tealdeer is simplified, example based and community-driven man pages

Introduction

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

What is tealdeer

tealdeer is:

tealdeer is a very fast CLI implementation of tldr, the collaborative cheatsheets of console commands.

The executable is named tldr.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tealdeer

Install tealdeer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tealdeer

Install tealdeer 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 tealdeer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tealdeer

How To Uninstall tealdeer on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove tealdeer

Uninstall tealdeer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tealdeer

Remove tealdeer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tealdeer

Remove tealdeer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tealdeer

Dependencies

tealdeer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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