How To Install vfu on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install vfu on Debian 9. vfu is A versatile text-based filemanager

Introduction

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

What is vfu

vfu is:

vfu is a nice filemanager 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 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.