How To Install unicode-idna on Debian 12

Learn how to install unicode-idna on Debian 12 with this tutorial. unicode-idna is unicode IDNA compatible processing data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unicode-idna on Debian 12.

What is unicode-idna

unicode-idna is:

This package provides the data mapping table for unicode’s IDNA specification. IDNA stands for Internationalizing Domain Names for Applications. The data is primarily used to support non-ASCII unicode characters in domain names.

There are three methods to install unicode-idna 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 unicode-idna Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install unicode-idna

Install unicode-idna Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unicode-idna

Install unicode-idna 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 unicode-idna using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unicode-idna

How To Uninstall unicode-idna on Debian 12

To uninstall only the unicode-idna package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unicode-idna

Uninstall unicode-idna And Its Dependencies

To uninstall unicode-idna and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unicode-idna

Remove unicode-idna Configurations and Data

To remove unicode-idna configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unicode-idna

Remove unicode-idna configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unicode-idna

Dependencies

unicode-idna have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install unicode-idna package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.