How To Install multistrap on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multistrap
on Debian 9.
What is multistrap
multistrap is:
A debootstrap replacement with multiple repository support, using apt to handle all dependency issues and conflicts.
Multistrap includes support for native and foreign architecture bootstrap environments. Foreign bootstraps only need minimal configuration on the final device. Also supports cleaning up the generated bootstrap filesystem to remove downloaded packages and hooks to modify the files in the bootstrap filesystem after the packages have been unpacked but before being configured.
Unlike debootstrap, multistrap relies on working versions of dpkg and apt outside the final filesystem. If dpkg supports MultiArch, foreign architecture libraries can be installed, where available.
There are three methods to install multistrap
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 multistrap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multistrap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multistrap
Install multistrap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multistrap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multistrap
Install multistrap 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 multistrap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multistrap
How To Uninstall multistrap on Debian 9
To uninstall only the multistrap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multistrap
Uninstall multistrap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multistrap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multistrap
Remove multistrap Configurations and Data
To remove multistrap
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multistrap
Remove multistrap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multistrap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multistrap
Dependencies
multistrap have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multistrap
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.