How To Install freedombox-setup on Debian 10

Learn how to install freedombox-setup on Debian 10 with this tutorial. freedombox-setup is Configure FreedomBox (transitional package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedombox-setup on Debian 10.

What is freedombox-setup

freedombox-setup is:

FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN. A web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps.

This package used to setup FreedomBox environment.

This is a transitional package. It can be removed in favor of freedombox package on which it depends.

There are three methods to install freedombox-setup on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install freedombox-setup Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install freedombox-setup using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install freedombox-setup

Install freedombox-setup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install freedombox-setup using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install freedombox-setup

Install freedombox-setup 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 freedombox-setup using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freedombox-setup

How To Uninstall freedombox-setup on Debian 10

To uninstall only the freedombox-setup package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove freedombox-setup

Uninstall freedombox-setup And Its Dependencies

To uninstall freedombox-setup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freedombox-setup

Remove freedombox-setup Configurations and Data

To remove freedombox-setup configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freedombox-setup

Remove freedombox-setup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove freedombox-setup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freedombox-setup

Dependencies

freedombox-setup have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedombox-setup package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.