How To Install toilet on Debian 10

Learn how to install toilet on Debian 10 with this tutorial. toilet is display large colourful characters in text mode

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install toilet on Debian 10.

What is toilet

toilet is:

TOIlet prints text using large characters made of smaller characters. It is similar in many ways to FIGlet with additional features such as Unicode handling, colour fonts, filters and various export formats.

TOIlet can open FIGlet fonts and is mostly commandline-compatible with it.

There are three methods to install toilet on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install toilet Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install toilet

Install toilet Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install toilet

Install toilet 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 toilet using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install toilet

How To Uninstall toilet on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove toilet

Uninstall toilet And Its Dependencies

To uninstall toilet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove toilet

Remove toilet Configurations and Data

To remove toilet configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge toilet

Remove toilet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toilet

Dependencies

toilet have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install toilet package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.