How To Install fts on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fts on Debian 9.
What is fts
fts is:
FTS is a modular fuse-tftp-supplicant which allows one to create pxelinux configurations for different types of clients using external modules on the fly.
It ships with modules for FAI (Fully automated install), OPSI (OpenPc integration), LTSP5 (Linux Terminal server project) and the clacks infrastructure daemon.
This package provides the main FUSE filesystem.
There are three methods to install fts 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 fts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fts
Install fts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fts
Install fts 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 fts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fts
How To Uninstall fts on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fts
Uninstall fts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fts
Remove fts Configurations and Data
To remove fts configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fts
Remove fts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fts
Dependencies
fts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fts package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
