How To Install erlang-cowboy-examples on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-cowboy-examples on Debian 9.
What is erlang-cowboy-examples
erlang-cowboy-examples is:
Cowboy is also a socket acceptor pool, able to accept connections for any kind of TCP protocol.
Cowboy aims to provide the following advantages:
- ‘Small’ code base.
- Damn ‘fast’.
- ‘Modular’: transport and protocol handlers are replaceable.
- ‘Binary HTTP’ for greater speed and lower memory usage.
- Easy to ’embed’ inside another application.
- Selectively ‘dispatch’ requests to handlers, allowing you to send some requests to your embedded code and others to a FastCGI application in PHP or Ruby.
- No parameterized module. No process dictionary. ‘Clean’ Erlang code.
This package includes erlang-cowboy examples.
There are three methods to install erlang-cowboy-examples 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 erlang-cowboy-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-cowboy-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install erlang-cowboy-examples
Install erlang-cowboy-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-cowboy-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install erlang-cowboy-examples
Install erlang-cowboy-examples 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 erlang-cowboy-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install erlang-cowboy-examples
How To Uninstall erlang-cowboy-examples on Debian 9
To uninstall only the erlang-cowboy-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove erlang-cowboy-examples
Uninstall erlang-cowboy-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall erlang-cowboy-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove erlang-cowboy-examples
Remove erlang-cowboy-examples Configurations and Data
To remove erlang-cowboy-examples configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge erlang-cowboy-examples
Remove erlang-cowboy-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove erlang-cowboy-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge erlang-cowboy-examples
Dependencies
erlang-cowboy-examples have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-cowboy-examples package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
