How To Install ksuid on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksuid
on Debian 12.
What is ksuid
ksuid is:
ksuid is an efficient, comprehensive, battle-tested Go library for generating and parsing a specific kind of globally unique identifier called a KSUID. This library serves as its reference implementation.
This package comes with a command-line tool ksuid, useful for generating KSUIDs as well as inspecting the internal components of existing KSUIDs. Machine-friendly output is provided for scripting use cases.
What is a KSUID?
KSUID is for K-Sortable Unique IDentifier. It is a kind of globally unique identifier similar to a RFC 4122 UUID, built from the ground-up to be “naturally” sorted by generation timestamp without any special type-aware logic.
In short, running a set of KSUIDs through the UNIX sort command will result in a list ordered by generation time.
Why use KSUIDs?
There are numerous methods for generating unique identifiers, so why KSUID?
- Naturally ordered by generation time
- Collision-free, coordination-free, dependency-free
- Highly portable representations
See https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
There are three methods to install ksuid
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ksuid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ksuid
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ksuid
Install ksuid Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ksuid
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ksuid
Install ksuid 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 ksuid
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ksuid
How To Uninstall ksuid on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ksuid
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ksuid
Uninstall ksuid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ksuid
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ksuid
Remove ksuid Configurations and Data
To remove ksuid
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ksuid
Remove ksuid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ksuid
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ksuid
Dependencies
ksuid have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksuid
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.