How To Install nap on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nap on Debian 9.
What is nap
nap is:
The advantage of nap over other graphical clients like gnome-napster is that you can run it under screen(1) on a remote host and disconnect from your session while nap continues the downloads. You can later reconnect to your running client even from another host and do more commands.
There are three methods to install nap 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 nap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nap
Install nap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nap
Install nap 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 nap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nap
How To Uninstall nap on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nap
Uninstall nap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nap
Remove nap Configurations and Data
To remove nap configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nap
Remove nap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nap
Dependencies
nap have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nap package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
