How To Install vfu on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vfu on Debian 11.
What is vfu
vfu is:
vfu is a nice file-manager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features:
- Fast one-key commands
- Filename completion and wildcard expansion
- Directory tree with sizes
- File-type colorization
- Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more)
- FTP support through archive-like interface
- Internal text/hex file viewer and hex editor
- Automount feature
- Extensive user-defined external support/utils!
There are three methods to install vfu 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 vfu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vfu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vfu
Install vfu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vfu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vfu
Install vfu 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 vfu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vfu
How To Uninstall vfu on Debian 11
To uninstall only the vfu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vfu
Uninstall vfu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vfu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vfu
Remove vfu Configurations and Data
To remove vfu configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vfu
Remove vfu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vfu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vfu
Dependencies
vfu have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vfu package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.