How To Install terminfo on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install terminfo
on Debian 11.
What is terminfo
terminfo is:
terminfo provides a pure-Go implementation of reading information from the terminfo database. This provides the infocmp binary from terminfo.
There are three methods to install terminfo
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install terminfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install terminfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install terminfo
Install terminfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install terminfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install terminfo
Install terminfo 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 terminfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install terminfo
How To Uninstall terminfo on Debian 11
To uninstall only the terminfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove terminfo
Uninstall terminfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall terminfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove terminfo
Remove terminfo Configurations and Data
To remove terminfo
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge terminfo
Remove terminfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove terminfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge terminfo
Dependencies
terminfo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install terminfo
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.