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