How To Install unaccent on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install unaccent on Debian 9. unaccent is Replace accented letters by their unaccented equivalent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unaccent on Debian 9.

What is unaccent

unaccent is:

read data from stdin, replace accented letters by their unaccented equivalent and write the result on stdout.

There are three methods to install unaccent 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 unaccent Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install unaccent

Install unaccent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unaccent

Install unaccent 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 unaccent using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unaccent

How To Uninstall unaccent on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove unaccent

Uninstall unaccent And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unaccent

Remove unaccent Configurations and Data

To remove unaccent configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unaccent

Remove unaccent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unaccent

Dependencies

unaccent have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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