How To Install whiff on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install whiff
on Debian 9.
What is whiff
whiff is:
whiff command, which takes a number of command names and returns the first one that exists and is executable.
It assumes that all the arguments form a best-first list of alternatives, and only prints the path to the first alternative found in the path. If none is found, it prints an error (to stderr) and exits with an error code.
A programmer interface is available in the App::Whiff module.
There are three methods to install whiff
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 whiff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install whiff
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install whiff
Install whiff Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install whiff
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install whiff
Install whiff 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 whiff
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install whiff
How To Uninstall whiff on Debian 9
To uninstall only the whiff
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove whiff
Uninstall whiff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall whiff
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove whiff
Remove whiff Configurations and Data
To remove whiff
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge whiff
Remove whiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove whiff
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whiff
Dependencies
whiff have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whiff
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.