How To Install filespooler on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install filespooler on Debian 12.
What is filespooler
filespooler is:
Filespooler is a Unix-style tool that facilitates local or remote command execution, complete with stdin capture, with easy integration with various tools. Here’s a brief Filespooler feature list:
It can easily use tools such as S3, Dropbox, Syncthing, NNCP, ssh, UUCP, USB drives, CDs, etc. as transport.
Translation: you can use basically anything that is a filesystem as a transport
It can use arbitrary decoder command pipelines (eg, zcat, stdcat, gpg, age, etc) to pre-process stored packets.
It can send and receive packets by pipes.
Its storage format is simple on-disk files with locking.
It supports one-to-one and one-to-many configurations.
Locking is unnecessary when writing new jobs to the queue, and many arbitrary tools (eg, Syncthing, Dropbox, etc) can safely write directly to the queue without any assistance.
Queue processing is strictly ordered based on the order on the creation machine, even if job files are delivered out of order to the destination.
stdin can be piped into the job creation tool, and piped to a later executor at process time on a remote machine.
The file format is lightweight; less than 100 bytes overhead unless large extra parameters are given.
The queue format is lightweight; having 1000 different queues on a Raspberry Pi would be easy.
Processing is stream-based throughout; arbitrarily-large packets are fine and sizes in the TB range are no problem.
The Filespooler command, fspl, is extremely lightweight, consuming less than 10MB of RAM on x86_64.
Filespooler has extensive documentation.
Filespooler consists of a command-line tool (fspl) for interacting with queues. It also consists of a Rust library that is used by fspl. main.rs for fspl is just a few lines long.
There are three methods to install filespooler 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 filespooler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install filespooler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install filespooler
Install filespooler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install filespooler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install filespooler
Install filespooler 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 filespooler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install filespooler
How To Uninstall filespooler on Debian 12
To uninstall only the filespooler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove filespooler
Uninstall filespooler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall filespooler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove filespooler
Remove filespooler Configurations and Data
To remove filespooler configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge filespooler
Remove filespooler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove filespooler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge filespooler
Dependencies
filespooler have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install filespooler package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
