How To Install uzbl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uzbl on Debian 9.
What is uzbl
uzbl is:
Uzbl follows the UNIX philosophy - “Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
- very minimal graphical interface. You only see what you need
- what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, … are handled through external scripts that you write
- controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more
- advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)
- focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats
- Uzbl keeps it simple, and puts you in charge.
There are three methods to install uzbl 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 uzbl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uzbl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uzbl
Install uzbl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uzbl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uzbl
Install uzbl 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 uzbl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uzbl
How To Uninstall uzbl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the uzbl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uzbl
Uninstall uzbl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uzbl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uzbl
Remove uzbl Configurations and Data
To remove uzbl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uzbl
Remove uzbl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uzbl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uzbl
Dependencies
uzbl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uzbl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.