How To Install tellico-scripts on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico-scripts on Debian 9. tellico-scripts is Collection manager for books, videos, music, etc [scripts]

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico-scripts on Debian 9.

What is tellico-scripts

tellico-scripts is:

Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines.

Tellico capabilities include:

  • creation of user-defined custom collections with unlimited fields,
  • automatically formatted names,
  • sorting and filtering by any field or property,
  • ISBN validation,
  • full customization for printing or display through XSLT files,
  • import and export of CSV, RIS, BibTeX and BibTeXML files,
  • import data from Amazon, IMDb, CDDB or any US-MARC compliant z39.50 server.

Tellico files are stored in XML format, avoiding the need for a database server, and allowing other software applications to use the data.

This package contains the scripts to import data from external sources, such as websites. As the format of the data may change, these scripts are provided as a separate package which can be updated through debian-volatile.

There are three methods to install tellico-scripts on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tellico-scripts Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tellico-scripts

Install tellico-scripts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tellico-scripts

Install tellico-scripts 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 tellico-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tellico-scripts

How To Uninstall tellico-scripts on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tellico-scripts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tellico-scripts

Uninstall tellico-scripts And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tellico-scripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tellico-scripts

Remove tellico-scripts Configurations and Data

To remove tellico-scripts configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tellico-scripts

Remove tellico-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tellico-scripts

Dependencies

tellico-scripts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico-scripts package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.