How To Install aptly on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aptly on Debian 9.
What is aptly
aptly is:
It offers several features making it easy to manage Debian package repositories:
- make mirrors of remote Debian/Ubuntu repositories, limiting by components/architectures
- take snapshots of mirrors at any point in time, fixing state of repository at some moment of time
- publish snapshot as Debian repository, ready to be consumed by apt
- controlled update of one or more packages in snapshot from upstream mirror, tracking dependencies
- merge two or more snapshots into one
There are three methods to install aptly 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 aptly Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aptly using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aptly
Install aptly Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aptly using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aptly
Install aptly 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 aptly using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aptly
How To Uninstall aptly on Debian 9
To uninstall only the aptly package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aptly
Uninstall aptly And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aptly and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aptly
Remove aptly Configurations and Data
To remove aptly configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aptly
Remove aptly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aptly configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aptly
Dependencies
aptly have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aptly package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
