How To Install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 9.
What is cyclades-serial-client
cyclades-serial-client is:
This is the client for network serial port emulation via the RFC 2217 protocol as used by Cyclades terminal servers and other products. It consists of a daemon that manages a pseudo-tty and a shared object to take over the tcsetattr() and tcsendbreak() library calls to redirect their functionality over the network.
There are three methods to install cyclades-serial-client 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 cyclades-serial-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cyclades-serial-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cyclades-serial-client
Install cyclades-serial-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cyclades-serial-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cyclades-serial-client
Install cyclades-serial-client 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 cyclades-serial-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cyclades-serial-client
How To Uninstall cyclades-serial-client on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cyclades-serial-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cyclades-serial-client
Uninstall cyclades-serial-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cyclades-serial-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cyclades-serial-client
Remove cyclades-serial-client Configurations and Data
To remove cyclades-serial-client configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cyclades-serial-client
Remove cyclades-serial-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cyclades-serial-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cyclades-serial-client
Dependencies
cyclades-serial-client have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclades-serial-client package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
