How To Install bareos-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install bareos-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bareos-tools is Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced - common tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-tools on Debian 10.

What is bareos-tools

bareos-tools is:

Bareos is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of data across a network of computers of different kinds.

This package provides some additional tools, mostly to work directly with Bareos storage volumes.

There are three methods to install bareos-tools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bareos-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bareos-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bareos-tools

Install bareos-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bareos-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bareos-tools

Install bareos-tools 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 bareos-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bareos-tools

How To Uninstall bareos-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bareos-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bareos-tools

Uninstall bareos-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bareos-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bareos-tools

Remove bareos-tools Configurations and Data

To remove bareos-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bareos-tools

Remove bareos-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bareos-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bareos-tools

Dependencies

bareos-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.