How To Install dh-metainit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-metainit
on Debian 9.
What is dh-metainit
dh-metainit is:
This debhelper script should be used by package that ship an metainit file. It installs the metainit file in the right spot and add the required actions to the maintainer scripts.
There are three methods to install dh-metainit
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 dh-metainit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-metainit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-metainit
Install dh-metainit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-metainit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-metainit
Install dh-metainit 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 dh-metainit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-metainit
How To Uninstall dh-metainit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dh-metainit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-metainit
Uninstall dh-metainit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-metainit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-metainit
Remove dh-metainit Configurations and Data
To remove dh-metainit
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-metainit
Remove dh-metainit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-metainit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-metainit
Dependencies
dh-metainit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-metainit
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.