How To Install fts-fai-ldap on Debian 10

Learn how to install fts-fai-ldap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fts-fai-ldap is LDAP FAI module for the TFTP/Fuse supplicant

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fts-fai-ldap on Debian 10.

What is fts-fai-ldap

fts-fai-ldap 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.

This package provides the FAI module for FTS which is using the LDAP backend in conjunction with GOsa and GOto to generate client configurations.

There are three methods to install fts-fai-ldap 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 fts-fai-ldap 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-fai-ldap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fts-fai-ldap

Install fts-fai-ldap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fts-fai-ldap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fts-fai-ldap

Install fts-fai-ldap 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-fai-ldap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fts-fai-ldap

How To Uninstall fts-fai-ldap on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fts-fai-ldap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fts-fai-ldap

Uninstall fts-fai-ldap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fts-fai-ldap

Remove fts-fai-ldap Configurations and Data

To remove fts-fai-ldap configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fts-fai-ldap

Remove fts-fai-ldap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fts-fai-ldap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fts-fai-ldap

Dependencies

fts-fai-ldap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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