How To Install toot on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toot on Debian 11.
What is toot
toot is:
This client allows you to access mastodon servers from the command line.
You can authenticate, toot, follow, unfollow, mute, block, unblock, search and more.
It also contains an experimental curses client.
There are three methods to install toot 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 toot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install toot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install toot
Install toot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install toot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install toot
Install toot 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 toot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install toot
How To Uninstall toot on Debian 11
To uninstall only the toot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove toot
Uninstall toot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall toot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove toot
Remove toot Configurations and Data
To remove toot configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge toot
Remove toot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove toot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toot
Dependencies
toot have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install toot package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.