How To Install facterdb on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install facterdb
on Debian 12.
What is facterdb
facterdb is:
facterdb is a library and tool that contains facts from many Facter version on many Operating Systems. It is very useful for providing context to spec tests for Puppet manifests in order to simulate running tests on many different platforms.
There are three methods to install facterdb
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install facterdb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install facterdb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install facterdb
Install facterdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install facterdb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install facterdb
Install facterdb 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 facterdb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install facterdb
How To Uninstall facterdb on Debian 12
To uninstall only the facterdb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove facterdb
Uninstall facterdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall facterdb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove facterdb
Remove facterdb Configurations and Data
To remove facterdb
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge facterdb
Remove facterdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove facterdb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge facterdb
Dependencies
facterdb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install facterdb
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.