How To Install live-images on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install live-images
on Debian 9.
What is live-images
live-images is:
The Live Systems project maintains the components to build Debian based Live systems and the official Debian Live images themselves.
live-images contains the configuration directories for live-build to build live system images.
This package is a metapackage depending on all available configuration directories.
There are three methods to install live-images
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 live-images Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install live-images
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install live-images
Install live-images Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install live-images
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install live-images
Install live-images 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 live-images
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install live-images
How To Uninstall live-images on Debian 9
To uninstall only the live-images
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove live-images
Uninstall live-images And Its Dependencies
To uninstall live-images
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove live-images
Remove live-images Configurations and Data
To remove live-images
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge live-images
Remove live-images configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove live-images
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge live-images
Dependencies
live-images have the following dependencies:
- live-image-cinnamon-desktop
- live-image-gnome-desktop
- live-image-kde-desktop
- live-image-lxde-desktop
- live-image-mate-desktop
- live-image-standard
- live-image-xfce-desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install live-images
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.