How To Install debpartial-mirror on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debpartial-mirror on Debian 9.
What is debpartial-mirror
debpartial-mirror is:
Mirroring of partial Debian repositories is easy with the debpartial-mirror tool.
With it, you can mirror selected sections, priorities, packages, virtual packages, or even files and directories matching regular expressions. Packages may be drawn from any number of sources, with dependencies for each source resolved from whichever other sources you specify.
There are three methods to install debpartial-mirror 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 debpartial-mirror Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debpartial-mirror using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debpartial-mirror
Install debpartial-mirror Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debpartial-mirror using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debpartial-mirror
Install debpartial-mirror 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 debpartial-mirror using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debpartial-mirror
How To Uninstall debpartial-mirror on Debian 9
To uninstall only the debpartial-mirror package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debpartial-mirror
Uninstall debpartial-mirror And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debpartial-mirror and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debpartial-mirror
Remove debpartial-mirror Configurations and Data
To remove debpartial-mirror configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debpartial-mirror
Remove debpartial-mirror configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debpartial-mirror configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debpartial-mirror
Dependencies
debpartial-mirror have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debpartial-mirror package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
