How To Install glassfish-toplink-essentials on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install glassfish-toplink-essentials on Debian 9. glassfish-toplink-essentials is Open source Java EE 5 Application Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glassfish-toplink-essentials on Debian 9.

glassfish-toplink-essentials is:

The GlassFish community is building free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software. The main deliverables are an Application Server, the Java EE 5 Reference Implementation, and the Java Persistence API Reference Implementation, TopLink Essentials.

This package ships only the Toplink Essentials components of GlassFish.

There are three methods to install glassfish-toplink-essentials 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install glassfish-toplink-essentials using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install glassfish-toplink-essentials

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install glassfish-toplink-essentials using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install glassfish-toplink-essentials

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 glassfish-toplink-essentials using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glassfish-toplink-essentials

To uninstall only the glassfish-toplink-essentials package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove glassfish-toplink-essentials

To uninstall glassfish-toplink-essentials and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glassfish-toplink-essentials

To remove glassfish-toplink-essentials configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glassfish-toplink-essentials

We can use the following command to remove glassfish-toplink-essentials configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glassfish-toplink-essentials

Dependencies

glassfish-toplink-essentials have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glassfish-toplink-essentials package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.