How To Install neard on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install neard on Debian 9. neard is Near Field Communication (NFC) management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neard on Debian 9.

What is neard

neard is:

neard is a system-level daemon which manages NFC adapters.

neard can read and write NFC tags, and exchange data with other NFC peers. It supports:

  • reading and writing of type 1, 2, 3 and 4 tags;
  • exchanging data with NFC peers via SNEP (Simple NDEF Exchange Format);
  • Bluetooth-NFC handover in both selector and requester modes.

There are three methods to install neard 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 neard Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install neard

Install neard Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install neard using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install neard

Install neard 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 neard using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neard

How To Uninstall neard on Debian 9

To uninstall only the neard package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neard

Uninstall neard And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neard

Remove neard Configurations and Data

To remove neard configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neard

Remove neard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove neard configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neard

Dependencies

neard have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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