How To Install friendly-recovery on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery
on Debian 9.
What is friendly-recovery
friendly-recovery is:
Make the recovery boot mode more user-friendly by providing a menu with pluggable options.
There are three methods to install friendly-recovery
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 friendly-recovery Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install friendly-recovery
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install friendly-recovery
Install friendly-recovery Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install friendly-recovery
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install friendly-recovery
Install friendly-recovery 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 friendly-recovery
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install friendly-recovery
How To Uninstall friendly-recovery on Debian 9
To uninstall only the friendly-recovery
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove friendly-recovery
Uninstall friendly-recovery And Its Dependencies
To uninstall friendly-recovery
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove friendly-recovery
Remove friendly-recovery Configurations and Data
To remove friendly-recovery
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge friendly-recovery
Remove friendly-recovery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove friendly-recovery
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge friendly-recovery
Dependencies
friendly-recovery have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.